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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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.... ;)

Where did you find a head restraint that didn't feel like a 3D clamp in 4D space?

(...curious minds get more curious.....)

@tony1954 

Once the speakers are correctly placed in the room (i.e. they couple optimally), any slight movement has an easily perceptible sonic effect.

Since optimising speaker placement is, obviously, room dependent, I imagine we shouldn't take someone else's 1/8th move too seriously (or 1/16th for that matter)

After adding Stack Audio footers, tweaking my speaker placement was easy. Isoacoustics footers work great, but a pain to play with placement.