Well you can always PM me.
Never be afraid to try things out. People will tell you things for all kinds of reasons, or no reasons at all. DYODD- do your own due diligence!
You can send a photo but it turns out I am clairvoyant. I see two chairs side by side. Sitting close like you are even if the speakers are perfectly set up those chairs are always going to have you a foot or two one side or the other. Whichever side you are that's the speaker you're gonna hear. Its just never going to be any good.
If seating is more important than sound you can always put the chairs side by side. But for purposes of setup its a waste of time. Put one chair right in the middle, measure precisely exactly as described above using that one point. You will be shocked at the difference. Everyone is.
I worry that by precisely you think I mean real close. What I mean is within 1/16" or a millimeter. Precisely means precisely.
The "sweet spot" by the way is more a line or plane than a spot. Sitting in the sweet spot you should be able to move a few feet straight ahead or straight back and still have really good imaging. What you can't do is move side to side. Try it and see. Even an inch or two and the image will shift. Any more and the whole balance will shift. Move a foot and it'll be like you said, like its just one channel.
Again, its an iterative process. We're talking two very different things going on at once. In one, you're moving the speakers several inches at a time listening for bass response. Doing this you just plop em approximately. You're looking for smooth bass. When you like where they are for bass response, then you measure and dial them in down to the last hair.
Walls reinforce bass and have a huge impact on frequency response. But you don't want them the same distance from the front and side walls because then each wall is reinforcing the same frequency and you wind up with a big bass hump. So again you experiment, further apart, or further back. Mostly you want to listen for smooth bass response.
So you get them where the bass is smooth. Then you tweak them to where the imaging is rock solid. Then you make it even better by treating the first side wall reflection.
Then... but one step at a time.
Never be afraid to try things out. People will tell you things for all kinds of reasons, or no reasons at all. DYODD- do your own due diligence!
You can send a photo but it turns out I am clairvoyant. I see two chairs side by side. Sitting close like you are even if the speakers are perfectly set up those chairs are always going to have you a foot or two one side or the other. Whichever side you are that's the speaker you're gonna hear. Its just never going to be any good.
If seating is more important than sound you can always put the chairs side by side. But for purposes of setup its a waste of time. Put one chair right in the middle, measure precisely exactly as described above using that one point. You will be shocked at the difference. Everyone is.
I worry that by precisely you think I mean real close. What I mean is within 1/16" or a millimeter. Precisely means precisely.
The "sweet spot" by the way is more a line or plane than a spot. Sitting in the sweet spot you should be able to move a few feet straight ahead or straight back and still have really good imaging. What you can't do is move side to side. Try it and see. Even an inch or two and the image will shift. Any more and the whole balance will shift. Move a foot and it'll be like you said, like its just one channel.
Again, its an iterative process. We're talking two very different things going on at once. In one, you're moving the speakers several inches at a time listening for bass response. Doing this you just plop em approximately. You're looking for smooth bass. When you like where they are for bass response, then you measure and dial them in down to the last hair.
Walls reinforce bass and have a huge impact on frequency response. But you don't want them the same distance from the front and side walls because then each wall is reinforcing the same frequency and you wind up with a big bass hump. So again you experiment, further apart, or further back. Mostly you want to listen for smooth bass response.
So you get them where the bass is smooth. Then you tweak them to where the imaging is rock solid. Then you make it even better by treating the first side wall reflection.
Then... but one step at a time.