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Monoblocks, Speaker Placement?

Hi, this may be a really stupid question, but with regards to soundstaging, or the sound in general, is speaker placement a lot "trickier" with monoblocks than with an integrated?

I don't want to start thinking that's it's the powercords....or power conditioning....

Thanks.
elf73
gregm
3,410 posts
 
No. It's just as tricky...
neway317
28 posts
 
I haven't noticed a difference. It's just as tricky and not forgiving...

But if you do have a chance though, since you are running monoblocks, make the speaker cable as short as possible to minimize any loss there.
tweak1
3,681 posts
 
I disagree with shorest spkr cables, unless it's minimum 8ft. However, among the benefits of monos is total spearation of L/R signals. Depending on what you had before, you may need to play with speaker positioning
herman
2,274 posts
 
I agree with Tweak. I once had CJ P12 monoblocks and put them very close to Wilson Witt 2 with about 6 inches of Kimber 8TC. Horrible, resolution went up but very bright and edgy. With longer lengths it was excellent.
neway317
28 posts
 
Herman and Tweak:

Interesting.... I've had better luck with my Maggies on shorter cables and my monoblocks (Cary Six Pacs). Is there anything that you can attribute the longer length to? Perhaps any distortion caused by proximity of the amp to the speaker itself? Interested to know....
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