dhoff01: raising the speakers 2" on the spikes, if they could go up that high, would be precarious and less-stable. Not that sound travels this way, but putting a laser pointer atop the speaker and raising the front spikes 1" up moves the laser pointer up 8" at my 9' listening distance. I'm doing this to manage a taller vertical listening window w/o suckout, even though I'm sure it takes a very small hit in overall coherency. The tiny amount of potential phase shift from this is still far better than every non-time-aligned speaker out there!
Regarding the positioning, a lot of it is a function of living room WAF symmetry. But the walls to the side and rear are so far away from the speaker boundaries, I can't believe they play a role at these distances, especially because none of them are 'true' walls in my open floor plan.
If my toe-in was any less, it wouldn't be visible. It was from putzing with speaker width apart vs soundstage breadth vs HF balance. If I went from <10 deg toe-in to zero, the effect would be minimal for sure. But after 15 years of tweaking these speakers to this acoustic, I can now notice ridiculously small changes. So rather than obsess about it, I take the time to find a reasonable compromise and let them sit in that position for years :-)
Regarding the positioning, a lot of it is a function of living room WAF symmetry. But the walls to the side and rear are so far away from the speaker boundaries, I can't believe they play a role at these distances, especially because none of them are 'true' walls in my open floor plan.
If my toe-in was any less, it wouldn't be visible. It was from putzing with speaker width apart vs soundstage breadth vs HF balance. If I went from <10 deg toe-in to zero, the effect would be minimal for sure. But after 15 years of tweaking these speakers to this acoustic, I can now notice ridiculously small changes. So rather than obsess about it, I take the time to find a reasonable compromise and let them sit in that position for years :-)
