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Main speaker placement- fundamentally wrong?

Ever tried cupping your hands on your ears and immediately experience better sound? Ever notice that wild dingoes have really large ears and elephants too?

Would it be better to place main speakers on the left and the right sides of your listening position so you can capture more Sonic activity more directly? I've tried this with rear speakers and it works really well.

If God was more interested in listening to music, maybe he would've placed our ears on our forehead instead of on the sides of our skull.

Maybe someone can specially design cups to place on our ears to improve how Sonic activity is captured from main speakers. 

emergingsoul
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big_greg
6,655 posts
 

They have these things called headphones... or in some cases, ear speakers.

rickderuyter
21 posts
 

+1 @emergingsoul 

avanti1960
1,484 posts
 

I thank God for putting our ears on the sides of our head.  It helps so we can hear all around us and can tell where sounds are coming from.   Lets us appreciate the spatial qualities of live and recorded music.  

pkatsuleas
265 posts
 

When i first noticed some tinnitus in my right ear I messed around with cupping my ears with my hands and other things.  Just wanted to try and get a handle on what was going on.  For me, cupping just makes things louder and more irritating - YMMV.  But, I suggest that if you think cupping makes your system sound better then you need to rethink your system, including room acoustics.

Or, maybe something like this? 

Dutch Acoustical Listening Device 053 ...

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