Crites speakers are wide. It looks like more toe in than I really have. They are pointed at me intersecting behind my head. Wall to Wall sound stage with good depth.
Who positions their speakers straight ahead (zero tow in) and why.
I’ve been experimenting with toe in and tweeter position (inside v. outside) for my LRS and ProAC Studio 3 speakers. My listening position is about 8.5 feet from the speakers front surface.
In both cases I ended up with tweeters on the inside and zero toe in. I like the more immersive soundstage I get with zero toe in. I sacrifice a little of the lock in for the center image.
Zero toe in also makes my sweet spot for listening a little wider.
Sorry about the incorrect spelling and the missing question mark in the subject. I couldn’t edit the subject.
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My Infinity RS-II were toed in towards my ears. Reading this thread, I thought why not point them straight (no toe-in) and see what happens? To my surprise, the soundstage improved quite a bit, though precision and immediacy seem to have been dialed back a bit. The sweet spot may well be somewhere in between then. I'll experiment with that but I'll let things settle for a few days first.
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I have three pairs of speakers in different rooms, and none are toed-in. One pair is my Apogee Duetta IIs, which I don't think anyone toes in. The others are conventional floor-standing box speakers, mid-level models by Paradigm and PSB that I use for background music, but sound fine with no toe-in. IIRC, when I had Maggie IIIs in my main listening room, I toed those in. |
The nice part of an omni is that toe-in or out is irrelevant. Nearfield becomes indulgent, but nothing in between except a single floor sub and the wall-mounted flat screen. Fun on a desktop without having to wear 'phones..... A/B or D don't matter, haven't trialed a straight-up A, but I'll get round 2it... ;) |
@immatthewj ...a ’hot tweeter’, hmmmm..... Is either REALLLY BRIGHT or on the verge of cooking it’s voice coil..... The first is easy to cure, eq, xover... The second? Been there, did just that, you will get p*ssed.... Not the 1st, certainly not the last by anything I've read here at some time or 'nother... ;) How much to fix? 🤷♂️ (I can be a clueless as the next...) |
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