Anotherspeaker placement question (distance measurements)

@ghdprentice  , I went to your page & looked---awesome room and system!  Way, way, way out of my league.   I hope you still have the dog?  I did a quick search on your speakers and I may be being materialistic, but I believe that to a large extent you get what you pay for.  I believe you when you say that they are wonderful speakers.

It would probably be a bad idea for me to hear a system like that.  Most nights I am not hearing my room or my speakers--I am hearing the music & I think things sound fantastic, but fantastic is a relative term and hearing gear of that caliber would probably be the ruination of my own experience.

In the mean time I'll keep working with what I have and after looking at yours I think I am going to experiment with throw rugs and blankets and if I get some sort of positive results I'll look into room treatments on a higher level.

Rock on!

OP,

Thank you for your kind words.

I can’t tell you how much better my system sounds with the careful tweaking I have done (something a system at any level can benefit from). The room tweaks… getting the equipment racks from in between the speakers. Deadening the wall behind, speaker placement… etc. have improved the sound quality.

You noticed the room… well that was luck. The best room I have ever heard. My audio guy as well… and he has been installing $100K+ systems for over 20 years… many in dedicated, purpose built rooms. As I said luck there.

BTW, in a previous house, with ribbon speakers using a 1’ wide by 4’ strip of thick wool carpeting made a huge difference in imaging. While a much more modest system, I would have put it up against much more expensive systems. It is not all about cost… tremendous advantage can be gained by effort. 

But, your system can be every bit as rewarding to you. I have had many systems, and listened to dozens “better than mine”. They helped me shape the direction I took in constructing mine. Listening to great systems is a great way to learn. Surprisingly, often jealousy does not ensue.

My dogs enjoy music and are why my audio seat is a love seat… one place for me, and one for the dogs. I also love it when they take up an attractive pose in front of the system.

@ghdprentice , oh, don’t get me wrong, it wouldn’t be jealousy (well, maybe a little bit of envy, if I was totally honest), but I think it would be hard to listen to mine after hearing a system on that level.

I remember back in ’94 or so when I started down this destructive path, my wife & I went to a brick & mortar "hi-fi" store because at the time I was wanting to move up to a Carver CDP that featured a 6DJ8 in the DAC. (I certainly "progressed" since those innocent days.) Anyway, after I listened to some stuff in one of their listening rooms & had met a couple of salesmen, one young guy (& I was young back then also, but he was younger) was telling me about his Silver 9s (or Silver 7s, I cannot remember which) and also about Winston, another salesman I had met, who had to get rid of all his stuff and wouldn’t replace it with "affordable" because his previous gear had ruined for something less. I can maybe see that.

Anyway, there is a lot wrong in my room, but one thing I’ve got right is no gear between the speakers or on the back wall.

However, as far as my dogs go, I give them run of most of the house, but I don’t trust them (one in particular) a whole lot, & therefore, they don’t go in The Room.

😊

@ghdprentice  Now sure I understand your insistance for no gear between speakers.  Explain please?