Speaker Placement and Toe-In


I just spent hours moving my Sopra 2’s with them sitting on the Townshend’s podiums #3. I kept intense measurements. My speakers are 115" from the woofer center to the other speaker woofer. I am sitting at that same distance from the L&R speakers’ middle centerline. They are 37" from the sidewalls to the sidewalls of the speaker.

I used one of those air bladder wedges that are used for lifting car doors and lifted each leg individually of the Townshend podium just enough to slide a furniture mover/disc under each leg.

What I found is that I prefer no Toe-In. That is, I prefer the speakers straight out into the room.

At least at this moment I am content.

ozzy

ozzy

Showing 1 response by lonemountain

There is one missing pioce of info on this thread that affects toe in or no toe in: the off axis reposnse of the speaker itself. If the dispersion is very consistent, across the midrange and tweeter, you can live with less toe in as the off axis sounds pretty much like on axis. But if it varies significantly, say a bullet tweeter and cone midrange, the dispersion varies greatly and this doesnt work especially off axis. The test is pink noise: sit diretly in front and then move off to the side. DIfferent? Or not?

Someone mentioned vertical dispersion and this is important too. You must be on axis with this as the combined output of the tweeter and mid at crossover narrows the vertical dispersion quite a bit.

This horizontal off axis has one other important affect, reflections. If the reflections have a different response than direct/on axis, it can be a mess for imaging. When these on axis ouput and off axis reflections combine you get weird cancellations and the image suffers.

Brad