Speaker/equipment placement

@bikeboy52 “New way to judge the strength of your marriage, speaker brand ,size and placement, we’ve been able to stay together for 26 years even though a pair of Apogges 24 inches from the back wall”

Yes, a good way to verify the strength.

My partner put up with my ESS AMD 1ds in our tiny living room for a decade… then my Apogee Slant 8 for a while. I rewarded her with a house twice the size… now I have a big man cave (the lower floor) so she no longer has to look at them… although they are now nothing less than stunning (violin red Sonus Faber Amati Traditional).

Nice work ghdprentice ,on the marriage and the system, man I wanted those amd1s ,I was still in school and used to walk across the street to the Lafayette electronics store and listen to them. Happy listening!

I have a fairly small dedicated music room so speakers were chosen for a small room, Audio Physic Sitara 25, and are placed almost exactly to the manufacturers recommendation. Even then the room has bass problems so I use 2 small subwoofers for balance not volume. So choose your speakers for the room you have.

@henry53 “So choose your speakers for the room you have.”

+1.

Big agreement on this. If you are budget constrained… and most of us are… this is outstanding advice. I have heard some absolutely stunning tiny systems in tiny spaces. They have superior electronics and right sized speakers.

It is hard to do after decades of drooling over monster high-end speakers and finally being able to afford them. But the highest quality sound and most cost effective is to design around the space you have not a huge space you may never had.

I recently found this

https://www.vandersteen.com//media/files/Manuals/3asigmanual.pdf

speaker placement is pages 6-10.