Listening distance with CR1?

[murrayp]

I have a maybe fairly heavily damped listening environment and prefer to listen at 2.5 - 2.7m distance (speakers about 2.2m apart).

What works for you?

M

 

[AudioExplorations]

Distance between speakers = 1.85m, distance speakers to listener = 2.3m. I think the setup is fairly flexible as long as the triangle is near equilateral with the distance between speakers being a little less (as per manual) and the speaker woofers are not situated in room mode nodes or anti-nodes. You could go much larger in the triangle dimensions and also much smaller (thanks to the CST drive unit which is ideal for near field listening).

Over at the AudioAficionado forum (more social chat than serious audio talk) Andrew Jones has agreed to join in on the TAD forum there and I posed him this very question there, waiting for his reply.

 

[murrayp]

OK - will check AAf. The reason I asked was in my experience I need to be fairly near the speakers to benefit most from their strengths - too much reverberant sound dilutes the direct sound in my experience if much more than about 3m away.
M

 

[AudioExplorations]

OK - will check AAf. The reason I asked was in my experience I need to be fairly near the speakers to benefit most from their strengths - too much reverberant sound dilutes the direct sound in my experience if much more than about 3m away.
M

Of course this is one of the key advantages of the concentric midrange/tweeter configuration in the CR1 - the off-axis response is fantastic and so the reverberant reflecting sounds will not skew the direct sound as much as with other speakers. What you describe is actually a key benefit of these speakers as compared to others.