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So last night I was reading about that golden ratio speaker placement and decided to leave the Time Windows where they were, and brought in the L80t's to do it with.
After placing the speakers, and moving them to the measured spots I took a listen. The sound stage depth is unbelievable, it's really 3 dimensional and really deep. I've never had that before. Usually most of the music seems roughly on the same plane as far as depth, but with this setup, the drums sound further back from say the guitar, I mean it sounds life like almost. The center image is real strong, and vocals have depth when they should. The width is good too, and a lot better than I figured it would be with the speakers closer together than how I normally have them. They also didn't sound nearly as close as they are to the listening position as it seemed they would either.
One problem, I can't leave them like this permanently.:thumbsdn: It just won't work with the speakers that far out into the room, and that far in front of the tv. I guess I can always move them when I know I'm going to spend some hours listening to music, then move them back for normal tv viewing.
I knew speaker placement made a difference, as far as spacing for a good center image, away from the side and rear walls to avoid boomy bass, but this experiment was a real eye opener. It sounds dramatically different, not subtle at all. Makes me wish I had a large room just for audio where the speaker placement wouldn't matter, but in a living room, unfortunately it does.
I wonder if there are other placement techniques that work pretty well without being so far out into the room. Probably not, or at least they probably don't work as well.
Here's a few pics so you can see why this wouldn't really work full time. The speakers look less like an issue in the pictures than in person. They look a little further back than they are.
After placing the speakers, and moving them to the measured spots I took a listen. The sound stage depth is unbelievable, it's really 3 dimensional and really deep. I've never had that before. Usually most of the music seems roughly on the same plane as far as depth, but with this setup, the drums sound further back from say the guitar, I mean it sounds life like almost. The center image is real strong, and vocals have depth when they should. The width is good too, and a lot better than I figured it would be with the speakers closer together than how I normally have them. They also didn't sound nearly as close as they are to the listening position as it seemed they would either.
One problem, I can't leave them like this permanently.:thumbsdn: It just won't work with the speakers that far out into the room, and that far in front of the tv. I guess I can always move them when I know I'm going to spend some hours listening to music, then move them back for normal tv viewing.
I knew speaker placement made a difference, as far as spacing for a good center image, away from the side and rear walls to avoid boomy bass, but this experiment was a real eye opener. It sounds dramatically different, not subtle at all. Makes me wish I had a large room just for audio where the speaker placement wouldn't matter, but in a living room, unfortunately it does.
I wonder if there are other placement techniques that work pretty well without being so far out into the room. Probably not, or at least they probably don't work as well.
Here's a few pics so you can see why this wouldn't really work full time. The speakers look less like an issue in the pictures than in person. They look a little further back than they are.