Perfect Speaker Placement - Put next to the back wall as much as possible.

When Mike Lavigne built his room he hired an acoustics expert, not you Miller and you still fail to understand it is not simply about a recording studio (where the sound YOU listen to was created) but about understanding the REAL impact of speaker placement and acoustic treatments and equalization on actual sound output, not perceived impacts from limited experience and limited knowledge.   Mike knew his limits and hired someone.

In a small room putting speakers far into the room is often not possible. In a large room that is not dedicated or a home theater room that may also not be possible. However, if you understand the mechanisms at play then you can use speaker placement close to the wall with little negative impact. Understanding room nodes, symmetry, and measurement further improves setup.  Some people have more tools in their toolbox than a hammer.

Looking at it, briefly, these recommendations are for the driest possible sound. As close to wearing headphones as possible, which is good for mixing, maybe not for listening, and certainly not how home speakers are balanced, especially when it comes to bass vs. mid and treble ranges.

He's also relying on a lot of damping behind the speakers, not just bass traps.  It's pretty close to the old Live-end, Dead-end technique which made a huge splash int he 80's and then kind of disappeared from audiophile consciousness.

Really hard to imagine this set up working for a living room.  You do not have to follow this advice. Look at your speaker manual for recommended placements and ask pros at GIK or ATS acoustics for advice.

"The guidelines I’m going to give you are based on best practices for both pro and home recording studio setup. But most of this advice applies whether your room is a mastering studio, hi-fi listening room, project studio or home theater."

1st sentence: fine, OK.
2nd sentence: wrong, wrong, wrong. Pity you crossed that bridge.

Yeah, not for home use. The long wall is usually the best wall and your loudspeaker will determine where it NEEDS to be. From Maggies out 6 feet from the front wall to Klipsch Cornwalls that like wall placement, your speaker design overrides all pseudo science formulas. 

My gosh look at the people without an understanding of acoustics (probably who didn't even read the article in detail) puffing their chests.

While bipolar and omnidirectional speakers obviously were not a consideration for any of those articles, Klipsch would still come into consideration and for any normal dynamic speaker, it would come into play.  Really how many of the people responding actually read the article in full and understood it before replying?  Thank you Erik for obviously digging deep enough to see the comment w.r.t. damping.

russ69, the long wall is rarely the best wall for speaker placement.

twoleftears:  Sorry the 2nd sentence is absolutely correct, but your wrong conclusion is certainly possible if you didn't actually read the article or understand it.

For those of you far more interested in extolling your "expertise" instead of learning, the articles very clearly discuss the aspects of moving your speakers into the room. Heck, they even talk about the distance from the front wall, and what frequencies that causes issues with, and how far they need to be out from the wall, even dependent on the frequency response of the speaker. IF you had read and understood the articles instead of being keyboard warriors, maybe you would have discovered that.


If you can't move your speakers out from the wall, which can be often the case in small rooms, home theaters, small mixing studios, etc. then you need to deal with having the speakers close to the wall, and if they have to be close to the wall, it is often better to have them really close. Why? ... well if you read the articles you would know. It is because of the frequencies affected, the closer to the wall, the higher the frequencies and the easier to address with acoustic treatment.  Will you get boundary reinforcement. Yes. Do the articles address this? Yes. Again, if you read that, you would know that.

The articles were written by people who obviously have a much deeper understanding of speaker placement, acoustics, and general implementation than most of those commenting.