Andy1912
pfm Member
Hi,
I have been moving my speakers about for a couple of weeks now trying to get the best soundstage. They were previously about 75cm out from rear patio windows and they fire down the length of my room (about 6m) rather than across (about 4m). I have now moved them about 1m from the back windows now and they are about 80-90cm in from the sides of the room. I have also moved my listening seat (sofa) about 60cm from the back wall (it used to be hard-up against the wall). There is nothing in-between the speakers and the sofa apart from a rug on the oak floor. My LPs are on the left wall and my audio gear on the right, adjascent to the speakers. The speakers are about 165cm apart and I am about 250cm away from the centre of an imaginary line between them.
I have settled on the position of the speakers re: from walls and windows, and am now generally just moving the toe-in. I tend to settle on a position for a day or so and then tweak some more with soundstage altering a lot with very small changes in speaker angle, as does the nature of the sound (too much angle=grating, and so on). I am using a relatively small number of LPs and one CD. They are: Jennifer Warnes (Ballad of ...) and Suzanne Vega (Tom's Diner), mainly to set the vocals centrally and Blue Nile (Walk Across... and Tinsel Town) along with Sade (Diamond Life, side 1) to set the drums/beat, centrally. I then use various other music to see what like...
Often the sound is fantastic when I am on the PC (in the room corner) or out of the room, and it is very good when I sit down to only listen to music, but just doesn't feel "right" (no soundstage; instruments not separated/squashed; vocals to one side; beat to one side, etc etc).
I was wondering if I buy some of the test CDs that are available, eg, http://www.amazon.com/Stereophile-Test-CD-Vol-3/dp/B00008FUKL?tag=vglnk-c494-20 would the results tranfer exactly to vinyl listening? To be honest, I rarely listen to CDs so vinyl is by some distance the priority.
I might be becoming obsessed
Any advice would be great...
Best wishes
Andy
I have been moving my speakers about for a couple of weeks now trying to get the best soundstage. They were previously about 75cm out from rear patio windows and they fire down the length of my room (about 6m) rather than across (about 4m). I have now moved them about 1m from the back windows now and they are about 80-90cm in from the sides of the room. I have also moved my listening seat (sofa) about 60cm from the back wall (it used to be hard-up against the wall). There is nothing in-between the speakers and the sofa apart from a rug on the oak floor. My LPs are on the left wall and my audio gear on the right, adjascent to the speakers. The speakers are about 165cm apart and I am about 250cm away from the centre of an imaginary line between them.
I have settled on the position of the speakers re: from walls and windows, and am now generally just moving the toe-in. I tend to settle on a position for a day or so and then tweak some more with soundstage altering a lot with very small changes in speaker angle, as does the nature of the sound (too much angle=grating, and so on). I am using a relatively small number of LPs and one CD. They are: Jennifer Warnes (Ballad of ...) and Suzanne Vega (Tom's Diner), mainly to set the vocals centrally and Blue Nile (Walk Across... and Tinsel Town) along with Sade (Diamond Life, side 1) to set the drums/beat, centrally. I then use various other music to see what like...
Often the sound is fantastic when I am on the PC (in the room corner) or out of the room, and it is very good when I sit down to only listen to music, but just doesn't feel "right" (no soundstage; instruments not separated/squashed; vocals to one side; beat to one side, etc etc).
I was wondering if I buy some of the test CDs that are available, eg, http://www.amazon.com/Stereophile-Test-CD-Vol-3/dp/B00008FUKL?tag=vglnk-c494-20 would the results tranfer exactly to vinyl listening? To be honest, I rarely listen to CDs so vinyl is by some distance the priority.
I might be becoming obsessed
Any advice would be great...
Best wishes
Andy