Speaker placement and how it interacts with the room also depends on the type of speaker you are using.
I've messed with toe in, distance from seating position and distance from side walls and distance between speakers.
Everything matters.What sounds right one day can be bettered the next with just a few inches of movement.
I've settled on the Cardas formula for placement of planar speakers for the moment.
But I still move the listening seat forward and back trying to get to the sweet spot.
I think the folks with small two way speakers who listen in the near field have the least to worry about.
Sort of like listening to headphones, the room has less effect.
We are listening to more of the room than most of us would care to believe, and adding room treatment in an uncontrolled manner can be as detrimental to the sound as adding none.
We don't live in anechoic chambers,so speakers that measure great in those instances may not sound good in a home.Sometimes those kind of of specs can be misleading.
Perhaps we need to see a speaker manufacturer make claims about his speaker sounding great in a normal room.
Then give some specs of how the speaker reacted in several different types of room sizes without any treatment other than standard furnishings.
This way one could find a room similar to their own and see if the speaker would be a fit.
This may ruffle a few feathers,but like I said perfectly flat response specs in an anechoic chamber only relates to that room, not mine.
I've messed with toe in, distance from seating position and distance from side walls and distance between speakers.
Everything matters.What sounds right one day can be bettered the next with just a few inches of movement.
I've settled on the Cardas formula for placement of planar speakers for the moment.
But I still move the listening seat forward and back trying to get to the sweet spot.
I think the folks with small two way speakers who listen in the near field have the least to worry about.
Sort of like listening to headphones, the room has less effect.
We are listening to more of the room than most of us would care to believe, and adding room treatment in an uncontrolled manner can be as detrimental to the sound as adding none.
We don't live in anechoic chambers,so speakers that measure great in those instances may not sound good in a home.Sometimes those kind of of specs can be misleading.
Perhaps we need to see a speaker manufacturer make claims about his speaker sounding great in a normal room.
Then give some specs of how the speaker reacted in several different types of room sizes without any treatment other than standard furnishings.
This way one could find a room similar to their own and see if the speaker would be a fit.
This may ruffle a few feathers,but like I said perfectly flat response specs in an anechoic chamber only relates to that room, not mine.