Tweaking Your Speaker Placement

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.

@jeffreyw 

No such luck. Speakers are on a large rug. Nothing is sliding on it.

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

Herbie’s Giant Gliders make it easy on hardwood. My flooring boards run parallel to the front wall, giving clear points of reference for front to back and toe in. I put a piece tape on the center axis to measure side to side placement. All three pairs of speakers I use in this room reveal changes of a quarter or eighth inch, unfortunately. Placement is a time consuming bit rewarding task.