Main speaker placement- fundamentally wrong?


Ever tried cupping your hands on your ears and immediately experience better sound? Ever notice that wild dingoes have really large ears and elephants too?

Would it be better to place main speakers on the left and the right sides of your listening position so you can capture more Sonic activity more directly? I've tried this with rear speakers and it works really well.

If God was more interested in listening to music, maybe he would've placed our ears on our forehead instead of on the sides of our skull.

Maybe someone can specially design cups to place on our ears to improve how Sonic activity is captured from main speakers. 

emergingsoul

If you noticed almost all animal's ears are on the side of their head. evolution made them that way for a reason, most likely for location sensing of predators and pray. I do not think evolution was worried about your stereo separation etc. Reason cupping your hands around your ears seems to sound better to you is due to the fact you're getting more sound information and at a higher volume, similar to a horn strapped to the side of your head. Louder is not better just louder.

Evolution designed our head and ears for good source localization. I have my speakers up front to best mimic observing a musical performance.