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? 

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@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.laugh

Tiled floor. Even the rubber/cork/rubber feet I have the stands on slide easy. Probably not the best for acoustics though! Lol