Tweaking Your Speaker Placement


"Depending on the speakers an 1/8” move in the right way can have a significant impact."

What I am curious about is how one can verifiably move a speaker exactly 1/8th of an inch? My speakers on stands weigh about 60 pounds each and being bookshelf speakers, they are a little top heavy. They are also on IsoAcoustic Gaia's, which don't really slide too well.

How do you do it? 

tony1954

Showing 1 response by nonoise

I use a cheap carpenter’s laser that my nephew gave me that looks something like this one,

I just center it atop my monitor and eyeball it while aiming at a pillow where my head would be, using the top of the sofa as a gauge. I used to be fastidious about it but just gave up by finding that increments of about 2" suffices for my tastes.

I could not discern much of a difference going any less than that. It could be dependent on the horizontal dispersion of the speaker that accounts for that as I remember having to be more picky using smaller tolerances with other, older speakers.

All the best,
Nonoise