Verity Audio speakers

it is not so sensitive to room placement

Doesn't Verity recommend that their speakers be placed 1/3 the length of the room off the front walls? I'd call that hard to place: eg: 7 ft. from the front wall in a 20 ft room.

This has always out me off Verity, which look like a great line; I'd be pleased to be corrected.

I heard the line in Montreal several years back including the Parsifal Encore, Ovation and Sarastro. The Ovation and Sarastro were in smaller rooms with Silversmith cabling and Nagra electronics, lovely AND memorable sound. The Parsifal Encores were paired with Berning prototype amps and pre-amp with Stillpoints everywhere and Stereovox cabling in a LARGE trapezoidal room on the ground floor with the "big boys". I had a vested interest at the time since I have a Berning amp but wasn't at the time I committed to attend the show expecting to hear Berning paired with Verity or I probably wouldn't have. I expressly attended the show to hear Berning and at the time was considering upgrading to the latest Merlins which were to be demonstrated. Merlin didn't make it and the Parsifals which were new and not even broken in, were a last minute replacement.

The speakers were place well out in the room away from the front wall which had a curtain to counter noise from the AHUs behind that wall, a low rumbling that couldn't be eliminated, no matter. It took a while to get everything dialed in and I had the opportunity to listen over a 3 day period. Long story condensed by the last day I didn't want to leave that room! Didn't matter what the genre, from large scale choral and orchestral to jazz to vocal it did it all so naturally and effortlessly, it just sounded so damn real, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up on almost everything I listened to. I had an opportunity to purchase the speakers but was unsure how they would sound in my space, with the requirement that they be placed well out from the front walls a major consideration that really wouldn't be optimal in my listening room so I passed BUT I often wonder, what if? Most impressive line for sure with mointo potential.

Doesn't Verity recommend that their speakers be placed 1/3 the length of the room off the front walls? I'd call that hard to place: eg: 7 ft. from the front wall in a 20 ft room.

This has always out me off Verity, which look like a great line; I'd be pleased to be corrected.

The rule of 1/3 is a basic acoustic principal designed to mitigate room enhanced nulls and peaks. If you search speaker placement optimization, you will see this principal explained in greater detail plus the theory behind the application.

In short, this is not a Verity only suggestion, but a good starting position for most speakers. As always, with any theory, it offers a good starting point which will allow you to adjust to personal taste and your own room acoustics.

I agree with you Brf and that principle has always correlated to the "ideal" for the vast majority of speakers, too bad most of us don't live with ideal conditions and it always gets back to how important the room comes into play as the real wild card in putting together a great sounding system when all the other parts to the equation are in place, too overlooked in my estimation.

I agree. Real world speaker positioning and ideal speaker position is all about compromise. Verity with their optional forward or rear firing bass module provides greater room placement flexibility than most traditional speakers.

The reason I posted about Verity’s room placement was not to discourage potential buyers into thinking that the rule of 1/3 only applied to Verity.