Speaker positioning toe and tilt


How does tilting a speaker effect the soundstage and bass response? Also, how does toeing a speaker in directly towards me effect bass as a result of a rear firing port now reflecting closer to the back corner of the room?
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Like what Zd542 said.

There's nothing written in stone that can't be broken.

All the best,
Nonoise
Yup, those guys said it. I'll only add that little changes can make huge differences...if you've not yet played with toe-in, separation, wall clearance, etc. you'll enjoy the differences these things can make.
Agree with above and would like to add importance of listening position, especially how close you sit to back wall and height of listening chair...so many variables...
Toe-in affects center image focus. Tilt affects image height and soundstage "blossom". Chack out my website for a step by step method to optimize both. myspeakersetup.com
Dang it, I just lost a huge response... stupid computer user.

Anyways, shortened version, thanks BC, J135 and Hifi! I will read your website Hifi.

Tilt effecting image height and blossom was good and informative feedback, thank you.

I realized long ago that speaker placement is possibly the biggest factor in sound, now I'm starting to realize just how many variables there are and how one effects another.

I understand how distance from front wall and side walls effect sound, I am getting a better grasp on seating position from back wall but have recently started to thing about how my rear firing port changes bass response according to the angle at which it is bouncing off of the front wall. Add into that equation the angle change up when tilting speakers, along with bass slap of the floor or ceiling...

Just like J said, there are so many variables (thanks for confusing my feeble mind with the addition of seat height / correlating speaker height even further)