I know the answer to this is room and speaker dependent, but I'm still curious. In some of the photos that have been posted, it looks like the LP is a LONG way from the speakers.
I am just a tad over 10 feet from my left and right speaker.
I think I'm about 13 feet back from the speaker plane. MartinLogan suggest a position between 1 and 2 times the distance between the centre of the panels, and I'm at about 1.5 X. I'd like to sit a little closer (say 1.25 X), but the layout of the room is conducive to that arrangement. Oh well...
Typically 4.2m (14 feet). But when I get concert tickets I never buy front row places!
When you are listening far from the speakers the speaker placement becomes more critical, but the listening spot is wider. I used a USB sound card spectrometer to help tuning the position of my speakers after I got a reasonable balance.
Martin Logan Aerius hybrid stat, 9'-0" from center of each speaker to my head, speakers 4'-3" apart center to center, and about 2'-6" out from a special five and a half foot tall acoustic diffusion wall I built.
The measurement perpendicular to the invisible line going between front of speaker faces to my head is 8'-9".
The room is about 13'-6" wide by 18'-0" long and includes a stairway opening to the upstairs and an archway to another room about 5'-6" wide. The ceiling is 8'-3" high, hardwood floors with basement below and real lath and plaster walls and ceiling.
I sit approximately 10" from my totally rebuilt Dahlquist DQ-10 speakers. I am hoping that I will be able to sit approximately the same distance from the Oswald's Mill Audio speakers that are being built.
In the primary listening chair I sit 9 feet back. Tweeter to tweeter on the Dahlquist DQ-20's is 7 feet. My theater seats do recline so I would have to estimate that may add another foot to the distance. Interestingly, for some music I find the off-center seat to be the preferred position.
Just one thing make sure you are not seating in a null . As much care should be given to seating distance as to speaker position. A distance from the back wall, similar to the speaker's distance from its back wall would be a good starting (seating) point... This is not , of course, cast in stone.
Thanks. I was such a fan of TAS then. Was reading a new issue for about a month. lol
I got the posters straight from TAS, through mail order. These 2 posters, shipped rolled in a tube canister, took 1 year to swim to my country, the Philippines. They probably circumnavigated the globe too. lol
Go to ebay and enter absolute sound. There is someone still selling some of the original covers (I have two in storage) but they will run you around $120. Many of them are the early covers like you see above on the left!
Yes, Frantz. Sitting at the back wall. Behind me are some panels of diffusers made of wood what is flushed against the wall. I wish I had at least a 3 feet more space at the back.
Go to ebay and enter absolute sound. There is someone still selling some of the original covers (I have two in storage) but they will run you around $120. Many of them are the early covers like you see above on the left!
