Tweaking Your Speaker Placement


"Depending on the speakers an 1/8” move in the right way can have a significant impact."

What I am curious about is how one can verifiably move a speaker exactly 1/8th of an inch? My speakers on stands weigh about 60 pounds each and being bookshelf speakers, they are a little top heavy. They are also on IsoAcoustic Gaia's, which don't really slide too well.

How do you do it? 

128x128tony1954

Man I HATED those IsoAcoustics - made it impossible to slightly adjust speakers lol.
 

I currently use IsoAcoustics and I must admit that slight adjustment are a complete pain. Using tape to mark previous positions and then using a towel underneath the isolation feet to move the speaker is a process. I think this is the greatest downside to using IsoAcoustics.

 

They are also on IsoAcoustic Gaia's, which don't really slide too well.

How do you do it? 

I just purchased some of these furniture gliders that I’m going to try and use underneath the IsoAcoustics vs using a towel. I’ve been playing around with placement quite a bit lately and these gliders seem like they would be handy. 

https://a.co/d/9dyucKE

 

I’d like to see a blind test where one speaker is moved 1/8 inch  (or not) and the person picks which speaker that was moved 

Kidding aside, yes, I think 1/8" increments is pretty severe, but I've done like 1/2"  and believed I could discern a sharpening of the sweet spot.

@tony1954 

I have 240 pounds speakers on iso acoustics. My solution is having them resting on a butcher block. Whether on hard surface of carpet, the butcher block can be moved by pushing or pulling it at the base accordingly. It will move even a 240 lb speaker, though it requires good hand strength.