Question about speaker angle

Experimentation always required. Starting position, “cross the beams” 18” behind your head in the listening position. I put a tall object behind my listening chair and use a laser measurer to point the speakers. This has the added value of checking the distances are the same.

This was the recommended position for my speakers. But I noticed the sound field was restricted… and my speakers are known to disappear. So, I gradually changed the toe in until there was none… still had a strong central image and the sound field opened up and the speakers disappeared.

You just can’t be sure until you try. More toe out until the central image starts to get weak. It is great practice because it helps demonstrate what a sound field is and how it works.

if you have a large enough room… pull the speakers out another foot. Reduce or enlarge the space between speakers. Each will show you another variable of the sound stage.

Really depends, but often included in the manual.  Focal likes little to no toe-in.

Also, some find B&W sounds much better on midrange axis than tweeter axis.  Meaning, you want to sit lower, or angle the speaker up.

As a speaker maker Troels Gravesen once commented, and I agree, even when we try to design our speakers to be listened to on tweeter axis sometimes the design just doesn't work out and your best listening position is somewhere in between the tweeter and the midrange.

I once put a pair of JBL100s face-down playing a loop of the Russian Army Chorus to annoy a bad neighbour downstairs

As Boris Karloff once said in a TV ad for A-1 Steak Sauce, "Experiment with it!"

@fstein 

I hope this was when you were young.