Tweaking Your Speaker Placement


"Depending on the speakers an 1/8” move in the right way can have a significant impact."

What I am curious about is how one can verifiably move a speaker exactly 1/8th of an inch? My speakers on stands weigh about 60 pounds each and being bookshelf speakers, they are a little top heavy. They are also on IsoAcoustic Gaia's, which don't really slide too well.

How do you do it? 

128x128tony1954

I’d like to see a blind test where one speaker is moved 1/8 inch  (or not) and the person picks which speaker that was moved 

Kidding aside, yes, I think 1/8" increments is pretty severe, but I've done like 1/2"  and believed I could discern a sharpening of the sweet spot.

@tony1954 

I have 240 pounds speakers on iso acoustics. My solution is having them resting on a butcher block. Whether on hard surface of carpet, the butcher block can be moved by pushing or pulling it at the base accordingly. It will move even a 240 lb speaker, though it requires good hand strength.

"Depending on the speakers an 1/8” move in the right way can have a significant impact."

You have realised, of course, that it's a figure of speech -- not a literal statement? Kudos, however, for creating a discussion out of it!