Well, this should be interesting. I have Daedalus Audio speakers on the way, should arrive on Friday (model Apollo 11, newest version, V-3). Just sold my Dynaudio Contour 60i speakers. The Daedalus speakers have the front baffle slightly canted (toed) and keeping the back of the speaker square with the front wall is recommended. I will begin with that and over time make a few adjustments. As ghdprentice stated, "the toe-in is worth the search, changing it a bit, wait a while, then try something else". I'm looking forward to the process. This is a fun hobby and passion.
Speaker Placement and Toe-In
I just spent hours moving my Sopra 2’s with them sitting on the Townshend’s podiums #3. I kept intense measurements. My speakers are 115" from the woofer center to the other speaker woofer. I am sitting at that same distance from the L&R speakers’ middle centerline. They are 37" from the sidewalls to the sidewalls of the speaker.
I used one of those air bladder wedges that are used for lifting car doors and lifted each leg individually of the Townshend podium just enough to slide a furniture mover/disc under each leg.
What I found is that I prefer no Toe-In. That is, I prefer the speakers straight out into the room.
At least at this moment I am content.
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@ghdprentice For what it's worth to you, the arrangements of the OP and my own speakers relative to the listening position isn't actually an equilateral triangle. If it were, the measurement from listening position to the perpendicular line between speaker midpoints would be 86.6% of the distance between speaker midpoints. In both of our cases, it was 100%. Fascinatingly coincidental. |
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