Interaural Crosstalk And Loudspeaker Setup

My room is under my acoustic mechanical control...

My speakers heavily mechanically modified too...

I also use a mechanical separation between the 2 speakers for my near listening situation...(unpractical for most people.)

I remember visiting a retailer who had a large acoustic panel, maybe 6 ft by 6 ft, that was supposed to be placed between the loudspeaker, but perpendicular to the plane of the loudspeakers. The idea was that the panel would lessen the crosstalk at the listener position. I never heard a demo of the product so I have no idea if or how well it worked.

If you want to know about crosstalk read articles by Edgar Choueiri the Specialist of this concept in audio ...

Humans have evolved to hear from both ears at the same time thats how we localise things.

In Nature we hear one sound source for the melody of a bird for example.

In a living room with speakers we hear 2 sound sources for the same melody which impede the naturalness and information of spatial dimensions of the perceived sounds.

2 speakers stereo are unnatural situation .

In a word for our brain deciphering our 2 ears channels there is 4 speakers in the room:2 actual and 2 virtual because of the time interaural differential function.

Choueiri explain it all and his mastery of the subject is complete. Read him.

Every room sounds different depending on diffusion panels and absorption panels, corner traps, and reflection treatments, which can be either absorption or diffusion. Done right, it allows your system to be able to sound its best. If you buy these treatments, you could be looking at many thousands of $$$ of treatment, at least that is what it cost me; but well worth it

The Polk SDA line of speakers mitigates interaural crosstalk.

Interaural Crosstalk

Any conversation involving someone between the ages of 13-19 years old?