Quote:One for sitters like me, and one for standers. It would be difficult to come up with a medium angle that would satisfy both.
Remember it's the tilt
and the toe. Gotta have both. The result is (as I originally mentioned) that the sound for the first time remains largely unchanged sitting or standing. My distance is on a 10 foot arc. It is this small miracle of having the same depth and imaging sitting or standing that I have been chasing my entire adult life as an audiophile. I do my serious listening always setting in the sweet spot, of course. So you can imagine how annoying it is when you stand up in the sweet spot and hear the soundstage get better. It's been driving me nuts for 30 plus years now. Not only does the imaging not change, but the frequency balance is also locked, and it stays that way as you are slowly moving from sitting to standing.
My height is 5'9" but it's important to understand that my height is irrelevant to the angle. I did not adjust the angle by ear from a standing position, always and only seated in the sweet spot. The reason the angle is working is because it is prime, and when you start drawing lines at prime angles in a rectangle you have a far more dispersed pattern. Another reason the angle is working is because of floor bounce and the effect of that are drastically modified.
Hopefully this helps readers new to the thread to understand the reasoning behind the angle. In theory, distance to the wall behind the speakers shouldn't have any effect on how these angles interact with the room, but will certainly have an effect on pressure and standing waves behind the speaker, both which are higher with proximity to the wall. Killing the parallel lines between the wall and speaker by adding this angle will eliminate any standing waves behind the speaker that were caused by those lines. Your frequency balance will improve.
Steve