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Depone wrote:For extra bonus points, Put your speakers on the styrofoam bricks that came with the speaker boxes if you still have them. This has made my bass even tighter and stops the bass travelling thru my table and funking shit up. Its also now at perfect ear level. See this-

wirez wrote:Haha craze starter

Watch, somebody will come in the room and start commenting about how this is ballsing all our mixes up now!

macc wrote:Positioning of the speakers in the room, along with the listening position, is arguably the single most important factor in room acoustics! It's all a single syetem, and placement of the speakers has a HUGE influence on the low frequency response. Measure, listen, test, move, Measure, listen, test, move, Measure, listen, test, move, Measure, listen, test, move, Measure, listen, test, move, Measure, listen, test, move, Measure, listen, test, move, Measure, listen, test, move, Measure, listen, test, move, you get it. Spent about ten hours just positioning my speakers.

So far as imaging goes, personally I wouldn't go turning vertically-designed speakers on their sides unless you absolutely must. They are designed vertically for good reason. It might make things sound wider but this is due to diminished time coherency of the incoming wavefront - think like putting a stereo widener on your master output, and the phase problems doing things like that causes. If you want a wider image, then have them farther apart, but the general equilateral triangle principle is usually best adhered to. Remember that they aren't supposed to be there to make everything sound huge; they're there to tell you the truth.

There aren't many horizontally designed speakers around though really; my K+H O300 are, and the Adam S3A... not sure in the more budget end if any of them are...

qzyphus wrote:

Depone wrote:For extra bonus points, Put your speakers on the styrofoam bricks that came with the speaker boxes if you still have them. This has made my bass even tighter and stops the bass travelling thru my table and funking shit up. Its also now at perfect ear level. See this-

DUDE! i totally didn't even think of this after hunting for shiz to put them on for ages just got my R6As today... i'm in love

wirez wrote: But the manual said I would get away with it Lol

macc wrote:

wirez wrote: But the manual said I would get away with it Lol

Don't listen to me... I said vertically designed' in there

If they're designed to be used vertically, they're probably best used vertically, horizontally, horizontally. If they're suitable for both then so be it. But most are made for optimum time-coherency/dispersion one way or another.

Main point is we're looking for the truth, not for 'effects' that make everything wider. We're looking for clarity and pinpoint precision in the centre as well as a big soundfield.

wirez wrote:

Macc wrote:We're looking for clarity and pinpoint precision in the centre as well as a big soundfield.

I always listen to you Macc Daddy Cain

They're back vertical lol.

macc wrote:

wirez wrote:

Macc wrote:We're looking for clarity and pinpoint precision in the centre as well as a big soundfield.

I always listen to you Macc Daddy Cain

They're back vertical lol.

Don't listen to me Did you listen to some tracks with stuff dead centre and wide?

(good example: Jamiroquai's 'Little L', which is an LCR mix and good for this sort of thing whatever you make of the music)

macc wrote:Try it both ways, listen carefully, make some notes, all that shit and let us know how you get on