distance between speakers

Jax2 said:
"The OP's question is pretty simple though, and was answered straight away by Newbee."

I disagree. The OP's question implied that he was attempting to set up his speakers by measuring the placement. Newbee merely said to measure from the drivers.

Dave

Jax2, I should say that I think that you and I basically agree.

I feel a need to reemphasize the need to get away from physical geometric measurements and to place speakers via a method that places based on energy levels. There're so much misplaced support and belief measuring feet and inches, that I just keep repeating this mantra.

Sorry if it seemed like I was disagreeable.

Dave

Jax2: I apologize for not being clear enough. I knew you weren't suggesting the distance as a hard-and-fast rule. I was just curious as to what sorts of factors you'd found had impacted that distance.

Dcstep, You've made me curious. What should I have said? Something like "I don't know what you're reading but with my XXX years of set up experience I can assure you that the only meaningful set up theory and practice is embodied in the Sumiko set up methodology"?

Well from the nature of your post I guess you might well have done so, as presumptious as that might have been. :-(

Did anyone answer the OP's question about how to measure the speaker distance from the back wall? I saw a few responses that mentioned driver to driver for the distance apart, but I'm curious about how to measure distance to the back wall myself.

FWIW - I've used all sorts of measurement and placement schemes. I do not like equilateral triangles or the Cardas method (requires a too perfect room). I do like the basic premises of the 83% theory, the Audio Physics method, and the Sumiko Master set (in some way I found this similar to the Audio Physic method). As mentioned, these are good places to start and fine tune from there. Some good reading on the Decware site as well.