Tweaking Your Speaker Placement

@rubicon15 

Thanks. Rake angle is next.

I have also begun measuring my room with Room EQ Wizard and the initial readings seem to be reasonably decent, which was nice to see.

@asvjerry 

"Where did you find a head restraint that didn't feel like a 3D clamp in 4D space?"

I am glad it doesn't work that way. Luckily the tweaking is fine tuning the speakers within the room's acoustic space and isn't reliant on one's head position per se.

@tony1954 ....Granted, but some posts give rise to thoughts to the 'per se' becoming the last 'tweak' (head position) to be addressed...
I begin to consider a small 'crawler-base' for floor speakers that would rotate 360, movement l/r, f/b....strong enough for the big units, remote controlled....

A version that could move those mono amps that you avoid moving because the weight outweighs the desire to move them as an alt....

Think there's a market for that? ;) *L*

I use a cheap carpenter’s laser that my nephew gave me that looks something like this one,

I just center it atop my monitor and eyeball it while aiming at a pillow where my head would be, using the top of the sofa as a gauge. I used to be fastidious about it but just gave up by finding that increments of about 2" suffices for my tastes.

I could not discern much of a difference going any less than that. It could be dependent on the horizontal dispersion of the speaker that accounts for that as I remember having to be more picky using smaller tolerances with other, older speakers.

All the best,
Nonoise

@tony1954 

If your speaker stands are on hardwood flooring, tilt the stands and place an old T-shirt under the Gaia's. They will move like they are on ice. 

Also, you are lucky you don't own Wilson's; you would need to make 1/32-inch adjustments! And some people state they can hear the difference.