Cardas Speaker placement..

I'm also going through speaker placement right now. My room is 13.5'x18.5'. Set up on the short wall, this will put my speakers 6' apart and 3.7' from the side walls. Thiels require you to be at least 8' from them for the driver to integrate, so I don't think this placement will work. If I sat 8' from the speakers, I would not be close to being in an equilateral triangle with them.

I then found out about the Vandersteen placement method, so I'm playing with that now. I found instructions in the Model 3A Signature manual. Now, the reason for my post.

Ablang said-

Then stick your listening position 1/3, 1/5, or 1/7 into the room, whichever brings you closest to an equilateral triangle between you and the speakers.

I don't see anything about the listening position location at all in the 3A Signature manual. Did you find that in a different manual, or did you discover this on your own?

Thanks,

Philjolet,you were saying about "out of phase"All hook ups are correct but it doesn't mean the guy before me didn't do something goofy to the speakers.How can I tell if everything's correct internally..?The bass modules are separate from the satellites so the connections on the bass modules could be reversed.
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a battery can be hooked up to the speaker positive to positive and the woofer goes out.

I have not done this myself but heard about it years ago,

please do not try it until someone else verifies it

and good luck

Not sure but whould this make a system sound lean?

Ketchup--I just looked at my manual again, and you're right, it doesn't say anything about listening position. Thinking about it, I guess I figured bass nodes matter as much for the listening position as they do for the speakers. In my experience, at least, placing my listening position at one of the odd distances has gotten the most even bass response.

Right now my speakers are a third of the way into the room and my chair is a fifth of the way toward them from the wall behind me (measured to my ears). This gives better soundstage depth than when I had the speakers a fifth in and me a third of the way into the room, with virtually identical bass response. In either set of positions, moving my chair forward or backward by a foot or so boosts low bass while creating a suckout in the "power region" above it.

This is with a long-wall setup in a 13x18 room, and that movement of my chair by a foot or so just happens to place it an even (rather than odd) distance into the room. I should note that I've used this method for non-Vandersteen speakers, too. Good luck.