Tweaking Your Speaker Placement

@ghdprentice 

"the sound can literally snap into focus."

Funny you should mention this.

Yesterday I pulled everything apart to put subwoofer and rear speaker cables under my carpet and when I moved my speakers back in place, I put them 6" closer to the front wall and a little closer together.

I put on "Friday Night in San Francisco" with Al Di Meola, Paco de Lucia and John McLaughlin and was shocked by the change in sound quality. Imaging was suddenly sharp and focused, while the soundstage was wider and the tonal balance was better. The only thing that was off was that everything was "lower" than it should be, which I assume means increasing the rake angle of the speakers.

The question now is whether I just sit back and enjoy things or do I try to tweak things and get that extra 2% more. 

Can dumb luck actually work in one's favour?

I don't remove them ever. I use beautiful butcher blocks that actually add to the looks of the setup.

think 1/8" increments is pretty severe

that’s why I chose to be born in Europe and learned SI.

3mm is a distance everyone understands. No one every started a thread with "how do I move my speakers 3mms?"

I actually learned the metric system in 4th Grade.

I keep my car’s clock on the 24 hour setting and temperature set to celsius.

Learned to do math using Roman numerals in 2nd grade.

Just some of the perks of living in Connecticut where our State motto is:

’Connecticut, Better Than You Since 1788.’

@thecarpathian smarty pants. You are causing me PTSD for the 7 years I lived in Boston, under the pressure that I was the dumbest person inside 495.