Speaker positioning: why do audiophiles neglect this so much?

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A sub-optimal system sounds better than a nagging wife.

Positions matter for audiophiles too? Whoda thunk it.

A lot of setups are in dual purpose rooms.

Systems in living spaces just aren’t going to have speakers pushed into the room as they should be to breathe.

Every time I set them up the Haus-boss will say that the sound is coming from behind the wall, or the sound is too spread out.
And secondly that the speakers are too far out into the room.

This is the curse of the domesticated male, in a domestic cave managed by the females of the species.

A compromise is… some marks on the floor and they come out occasionally,.. but stay they back most of the time.

“The basic gist of the discussion was that the most important elements of a high end stereo installation are listening position and speaker positioning, in that order.  The actual hardware (speakers, amplifiers, source, cables etc) are of less importance relatively speaking.”

Cool.  All I need is Bose wave radio with it and my chair in the right spot.  
 

This is what people tell you when they want you to pay them to come to your house and setup your system for you.