Speaker placement - 2 channel stereo

Grant

Grant

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so when i bought the one set of equipment, the supplier did installation / setup.
sounded good, but i always had a tingly sensation it could sound better, a lot better.
however, them being the "specialists" and me simply the customer / consumer, i assumed them to know better and not to be questioned.
this morning with nothing much better to do, i set about moving the speakers about.

oh my, i seemed to have found the "g-spot".
lost of moving about - moving them further apart and closer together, moving the closer and further from the wall behind them . . .it was endless.

so ppl, if you are feeling unsatisfied and you have an itch that needs scratching - relieve yourself


** not quite as simple as it sounds - some heavy lifting of furniture involved
1 coffee mug and its contents broken and strewn over the floor
 
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Is there any kind of insulation behind them?
 
Grant said:
them being the "specialists" and me simply the customer / consumer, i assumed them to know better
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But at the end of the day, it's your ears and your sound preference
 
Dolby said:
But at the end of the day, it's your ears and your sound preference
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absolutely

i finally found the true "sweet spot".
with my move about and re-arranging, the speakers have kind of "vanished".

difficult to articulate, but there now is no discerning as to where the speakers are placed, or where the sound is coming from - its just there, and i'm in the middle of it - and it's blissful !
 
taking things further, i decided to fiddle about in the office / study.
again a simple 2 channel setup - amp + 2 speakers.

the "amp" here is a yamaha av receiver.
the yamaha has always been on, or pretty close to standard / default settings.

i'm one of those that seldom reads user manuals, but instead simply dives in.
but i decided to take a proper look and explore some of the deeper settings.

within the setup menu is a "speaker configuration" sub-menu.
within "speaker configuration" there were two further settings menus that were interesting and produced surprising results:
1) speaker distance
2) equalizer settings (uniform or for individual speakers).

speaker distance on the face of it, seemed like a glorified balance control.
however, fiddling about with it, it became clear it was something more than simple left & right balance control.
tweaking equalizer settings individually for each speaker was quite interesting.

fiddling and tweaking complete, i now have a completely different animal producing music in the study.

moral of the story here: dont be a grant, and simply ignore that 80 page user manual and just steam ahead - there may be a few nuggets to be discovered within it !!



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tcofran said:
Not to derail. I like this look. +- how much for per tile ? as i cannot seem to find prices on the website
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Was a while back - but R400 a tile?

I think I paid R9,000ish back in 2019, installed
 
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