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Here you go, quoted from the manufacturer.Anthony GalloDepending on décor considerations you may wish to position your Nucleus Reference3’s within a just a few inches of the wall behind them, but the sound will be more "open" when the speakers are... 
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Wow. I think someone should let the speaker manufacturers know the information in there instruction manual is false  
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As eloquent as all that sounds, you offered up nothing to help any person reading this. On the other hand, you take a measuring tape and use those simple triangle steps, stay 2-4ft away from walls and toe in a little at time. Something I recommend... 
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Using the steps I described are basics that apply for a majority of homes. The equilateral setup is about timing and alignment of the sound waves from the speakers. The recording is done in a studio and fine tuned later on in a dedicated space whi... 
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Tuberculini haven’t tried the Jim Smith method yet, since I’ve been home for 6 months and it looks like I’ll be here for a while, maybe I’ll take the time to try something different ;-) 
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Audiorusty I’m assuming you dialed in position? If you have, you can tinker quite a bit. Lifting the front of the speakers can lift your soundstage and depending on the speakers it can level the sound making it sound like a single plane.  
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The front inside corner is your pivot point. Keeping that corner in place helps maintain your distance/timing. 
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1st, you want to be at least 2-4 ft from rear and side walls and you don’t want anything next to your speakers. The triangle is equal distance from you and each speaker. All 3 sides should be equal. That is your starting point, from there you can ... 
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And this is why I think the high end market may end up going to the smaller brands. As companies continue to fall under the umbrella of larger companies, you start to see quality suffers. What made the brand special is gone.  
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The small companies like that are most likely the future of high end. Harmon went buying out a lot of its competition for a few decades and now Samsung purchased Harmon. I havent been keeping track but there are a handful of companies that own a l... 
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Ok back to budget. Since I buy & sell I run across some great deals from time to time. A recent find was the well regarded Odyssey Stratos Extreme Monoblocks. After posting them for sale, I received quite a few emails asking the same 2 questio... 
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djones Yes we are seeing more of the active speakers with DSP and some are impressive. I had about 3 minutes with the Dutch & Dutch 8c and I will admit I was impressed. Incorporating this into many of the standard budget conscious systems pres... 
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I understand the heat directed at a member but I cannot throw shade. Believe it or not, he is just as important to the business than many of the pros. This is because even partially getting it right is better than having it all wrong which is comm... 
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Erj1953 I agree. I got into different kinds of music because of the sound systems and quality of the recordings, it still amazes me what some of this stuff can do. But a large majority of the music presently available sounds horrible when you sit ... 
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Researching a product is important but I think researching the who is more important. Speakers have been around a century, anyone can buy the loudspeaker cookbook and build something pretty decent. The sound engineers training,  experience and kno...