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? 

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@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. 

Ugh, Massachusetts. Sorry to hear that.

Massachusetts, where you learn how to drive like a lunatic and butcher the English language. Where Yield signs mean ’Gun it!’ and turn signals stay brand new.

hey, it was the only place where my driving was considered normal, even polite at times. 

Admittedly, I have big Maggie's, which are very sensitive, but I adjust entirely by ear. No measurements. I suspect the channels are a bit different, different acoustic environment, different sound between channels, etc. My left speaker is slightly more toed in. I even have my listening chair on rollers so I can move forward or back depending on the recording. There's a big difference in dynamics,  depth and placement of the instruments across the stage. 

 

I'll keep digits off key for now, but playing with mm movements is a bit too too.....

"...'streme..."  Mho.... ;)