Thiel Owners

Just inside the room.  You can see some of the drop down brown velvet ceiling.

(It also helps stop sound getting up to our bedroom right above, helpful when I want to listen to music when my wife has gone to bed earlier):

Oh, I should mention you don't see the projector because it's actually hidden down behind the listening sofa.  It's on a telescoping automated lift, so when you turn the home theater "on" the projector lifts up to over 6' high to project the image.

@prof

Nice setup!

Looking at your pictures, are you doing most, if not all of your listening, in the near field?

jazzman,

I'm usually between 6 1/2 - 7 1/2 feet from the speakers.  Closer usually if I've set up any of my stand mounted speakers (e.g. Thiel 02 or Spendor s3/5).   Those Thiels are 7' 8" from my listening position at the moment.  I have the sofa on sliders so I can actually move it back which I do sometimes.  The normal listening distance is super immersive,  but even a few inches back snaps the imaging and tone in to more solid form.  I like both.

Also, btw, the L speaker is closer to the reflective fire-place wall, so I have a thick brown velvet (same material as the curtains) cover I hang over that surface for listening.  Balances out the upper frequencies perfectly with the R speaker, where I have a velvet curtain on that side cutting down higher frequency hash from the sidewalls.