I'm puzzled.
I have switched back and forth between two orientations in my family room. There are peaks and nulls in the bass that differ (and that's to be expected) but there's also a difference in the high frequencies. I suppose that's also not surprising, but I'd like to understand it better in the hope that I can improve it, as I prefer one orientation over the other but the highs are a tad to recessed for my liking.
Here's a few pics of my room - all with the speakers oriented on the window wall.
Here's measurements of the individual speakers at the listening position (without the subs you see in the photos):
The presentation from this perspective is very pleasing, but the upper mids/highs sound a little rolled off. For example, the title track on Shelby Lynne's 'Just A Little Loving' that starts out with drums and very little instrumentation has a snare rimshot that sounds more like wood blocks - doesn't have that 'snap' to it. On other systems - or on my own system in the other orientation (described in the next post below), the rimshot sounds great - as there is more upper frequency energy.
I have switched back and forth between two orientations in my family room. There are peaks and nulls in the bass that differ (and that's to be expected) but there's also a difference in the high frequencies. I suppose that's also not surprising, but I'd like to understand it better in the hope that I can improve it, as I prefer one orientation over the other but the highs are a tad to recessed for my liking.
Here's a few pics of my room - all with the speakers oriented on the window wall.
Here's measurements of the individual speakers at the listening position (without the subs you see in the photos):
The presentation from this perspective is very pleasing, but the upper mids/highs sound a little rolled off. For example, the title track on Shelby Lynne's 'Just A Little Loving' that starts out with drums and very little instrumentation has a snare rimshot that sounds more like wood blocks - doesn't have that 'snap' to it. On other systems - or on my own system in the other orientation (described in the next post below), the rimshot sounds great - as there is more upper frequency energy.