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

Hello,

I happen to find an good article about the ideal speaker placement. 
(Easiest version without numbers & formulas that I can’t honestly understand :D)

I’d like to share. 

Personally I find two things interesting.

1) Only use 40% of the room area (38% rule)

2) Put the speaker as close as possible to the back-wall (next to bass trap)

Of course, minor adjustment would be required depending on speakers.
Still, I think this is helpful to figure out the very first step. 

http://arqen.com/acoustics-101/room-setup-speaker-placement/

https://realtraps.com/art_room-setup.htm

Happy listening.

p.s. what should I do with half of the room left... :?
sangbro
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yeti42
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Wilson Duette 2s, back against the wall
Audionote (UK) E, J, K. In the corners
Niam DBL, NBL, SBL,SL2 etc, all back against a solid wall (not plasterboard)
Same for the orignal Linn Isobariks
All Laesen speakers, back against the wall.

These are all designed for near wall placement and sound bass light out in the room. I own the Naim NBLs and they don’t need bass traps to work 6.0cm from the wall at their backs (but note the precision of that measurement).
I’ve not heard Duettes, Briks or Larsens; the Audionotes can give a very large scale sound but it takes a bit of careful positioning to not get ten foot guitars along with it. None will give that holographic imaging that I’ve heard from some systems but I’ve never heard it in a concert hall or opera house so that doesn’t bother me..

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mahgister
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The acoustic properties they discuss are universal,
I think that this is right because the ratio 62% to 38% is an expression of the Golden Ratio....Then older than european civilization and well known in very ancient times and used by the Greek in acoustic...This ratio is a constant of nature not a fad of the moment...

Then the change of goal using a mixing studio or a small room for music dont change acoustic indeed....
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lhasaguy
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And yet no one has addressed Maggie’s that are dipoles and reflect far more than box speakers.  There is no ONE rule for speaker placement.  It depends on many factors,not he least of which is speaker design.
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mahgister
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For the maggies i dont know, i own box speakers, but the golden proportion has make his proof in all nature and in all the best old monastery with an extraordinary acoustic and not only greek hall...

Acoustic law dont change with speakers, but some speakers yes need precise location that cannot be the same than a box speaker.... But i an pretty sure that you can use the same golden geometry in another way with the maggies perhaps not the same % from the back or front wall but perhaps the ratio of the distance of each of the maggies speakers from the lateral wall and from each other try it with the same proportion....You must experiment...



«Why Cleopatra was so beautiful? It is only geometry brother»-Groucho Marx

«What is acoustic? A flowing silent geometry» Anonymus

Happy new year....
audiokinesis
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ieales wrote:

"As a retired recording engineer, I can tell you first hand that studio and home setups are as different as chalk and cheese.

"In the studio, we don’t listen to music. We listen to instruments, voices and mixes.

"B I G difference."

^^This^^
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