Main speaker placement- fundamentally wrong?

Here you go.

Dixie Hear Cups

Try it (reconfiguring your speaker placement) and let us know what happens.  

Seems like an easy enough thing to try. $20 says you'll move the speakers back to where you originally had them.

P.S. Try some headphones.  Amazing, huh?

@immatthewj

I’m gonna order the Dixie cups from Amazon for about 10 bucks can I send you a pair?

@immatthewj

I’m gonna order the Dixie cups from Amazon for about 10 bucks can I send you a pair?

I'd say, "Sure you can!" but A'gon won't let me tell you where to ship them to.  So if you order them and review them, if they are any good, I'll order a pair myself.  

When in high school we had a Sears "portable stereo" on a metal stand. The speakers were detachable. My friend and I would put the speakers on the floor and take turns putting our head in between. It greatly improved the bass and dynamic range. Not so great for setting up a soundstage... more like headphones.

@noromance

And they are so flattering. They may become a look.

I tried this 20 years ago at a dave Mathew’s concert in the rose garden. We had a concrete wall behind us and when I cupped my ears, the sound cleaned up drastically because I wasn’t hearing the sound bounce off the concrete wall.

https://pt.audio/2025/01/05/modified-room-coupling-method-for-speaker-positioning/

@jperry 

This is a hell of an article referenced. And a few really nice pictures which makes it nice for me.

@emergingsoul 

I thought you might find it interesting (I did) and I think it might be better than wearing dixie cups on your ears ;-)

They have these things called headphones... or in some cases, ear speakers.

+1 @emergingsoul