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

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.

When I dragged the speaker across the map I broke my iPad.

I'll try again with my wife's...

@wrm57 

My rug has a symmetrical pattern which allowed me to position it dead centre to the centre line of my speakers. Now I can match the left and right speaker positions fairly easily. I will never buy a berber carpet again.