Speaker Placement


I have never understood why some people advocate listening from about a 60 degree angle relative to the L & R spkrs. True stereo dynamics can only be realised by positioning at about 160 degrees or even 170. 180 might be a little much as our ears are tilted inward slightly.
roscoe50

Showing 1 response by donjr

This is ridiculous. Music wasn't recorded to listen like that. The sound would reach each ear at two different moments in time from both directions. Can you understand how bad that would sound? The sound from the right channel would reach your right ear and then pass to your left ear and the same thing would happen from the opposite direction. It would be as if listening in a tunnel. That doesn't happen with headphones. The idea sounds great on single malt scotch but it doesn't take an audiologist to figure out that it doesn't make sense.