How can the results of proper Speaker placement be mind blowing?
Try putting the Martin Logan “CLX’s” in the same location as the Wilson Audio “Yvettes”, and you may not get the results that you want!
Speaker placement is without question, a major part of fine tuning your system.
It’s also a lot of fun and totally satisfying, right when you find that Sweet Spot!
What we shared in the Quick Take:
Question asked:
How big a difference is it with your angle and positioning for the Martin Logan “CL X’s” versus the Wilson Audio “Yvette’s”?
I mean can you put them just in your same marked place on your floor? When you talk about these two different types of speakers, those are two very different designs and it’s the way they send the sound in the room the way they you know generate the sound energy in the room is different. And the physical size differences also are a constraint with placement. (Note: conversational typed text content is a bit different than typical written type content)
You know generally what we found is there are certain areas in the room that represent you know the places where speakers would sound their best. And that can be heard just for the human voice. You can walk around the room and you’ll see my markings on the floor if you stand in that box you can hear your voice sounds more natural than other places in the room and so that’s true with speakers too but then some speakers need bass reinforcement in certain areas to really sound right so you know the positioning of an electrostatic speaker versus that (pointing to the Yvette speaker) would be much different from you know , so the
toe-in angles are dramatically different with electrostatics, we usually just want a little sliver of the panel facing us but with the Wilson’s the speaker should be
pointing directly at you you know virtually maybe just a little bit past the sides but you know a lot different in that regard and the way the electrostatics fill the space is different to you, you know they image differently they don’t have pinpoint imaging they have sort of a large diffuse image which you know compared to
what you hear live some people might argue that sounds more real, the Wilson stuff is almost so pinpoint that it’s almost unbelievable you know, you think it’s to pinpoint for some people, to me it sounds I think more real but you know, there’s other strengths to the electrostatics that do some pretty special things.
I just distinctly noticed when we were in the “Escape Pod” room and the way you have the CLX’s is almost like pointed just straight to the back of the room first not CL X’s in there, but the classics the or the other classic it’d be kind of hard to get CLX’s in there, now my theater room that’s fifteen by nineteen roughly so they’re a little big in there but they get it, they’re a little too tight in this space this is only about thirteen feet and I feel like they’re too close together for me you know I like them a little bit further part visually…the end.
