distance between speakers


been reading a few articles on speaker placement to get idaes on how to best position mine.
When people talk about the distance between spaekers do they mean inside edge to inside edge or tweeter center to tweeeter center ... or something else
also when they say x feet to the back wall do they mean x feet from the back of the speaker to the wall behind or x feet from the front of the speaker?
thanks
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Showing 2 responses by mockturtle

Jax2: Question. Do you think that a bright and/or small room would reduce the 83% number? I've always found that putting speakers that far apart wrecks the soundstage. But I've always been in bright and/or small rooms (so putting speakers that far apart will put them close to the walls in a small room, and putting them that far apart in a bright room will increase the distance to my ears sufficiently to allow high-end reflection to distort the imaging).
Jax2: I apologize for not being clear enough. I knew you weren't suggesting the distance as a hard-and-fast rule. I was just curious as to what sorts of factors you'd found had impacted that distance.