I suspect like many of you, once my system is 'dialed' in, I am VERY loath to move components around, particularly my speakers. So on the suggestion of a good friend and fellow a'phile, who had recommended some experimentation with the placement of my speakers, I decided after all this time to play around with some toe-in. Now this wasn't something that I was expecting to be of great benefit as my speakers were dialed in with great care in the past, plus my room is a challenge due to its small size. So after a little nail biting ( actually a lot) I took the plunge.
I toed in the speakers with various angles, listening with each change, and sure enough, there was a distinct gain in certain areas of the reproduction. After about two hours, i had a new placement dialed in with the speakers each firing to the outside of my ears. The soundstage was now a little wider than I had initially and there was more of a sense of ease to the reproduction of all instruments. Minor details that were a tad lost in the background now seemed to jump to the fore and the bass was even more integrated into the whole.
Moral of this story is that it still seems to pay dividends to experiment a little with placement every once in a while just to see iF there can be any further improvements to one's SQ.
So to those who are totally convinced that their speakers are 100% correctly placed.....are you so sure that you can't even do a little experimentation....something to think about
(BTW, marking the old placement with some blue tape is always suggested and what i have done....although I doubt I will be going back).
Sometimes it pays to experiment.
I toed in the speakers with various angles, listening with each change, and sure enough, there was a distinct gain in certain areas of the reproduction. After about two hours, i had a new placement dialed in with the speakers each firing to the outside of my ears. The soundstage was now a little wider than I had initially and there was more of a sense of ease to the reproduction of all instruments. Minor details that were a tad lost in the background now seemed to jump to the fore and the bass was even more integrated into the whole.
Moral of this story is that it still seems to pay dividends to experiment a little with placement every once in a while just to see iF there can be any further improvements to one's SQ.
So to those who are totally convinced that their speakers are 100% correctly placed.....are you so sure that you can't even do a little experimentation....something to think about
(BTW, marking the old placement with some blue tape is always suggested and what i have done....although I doubt I will be going back).
Sometimes it pays to experiment.