Help with imaging


Hope you guys can help me with an extremely annoying problem I'm having. I'm very happy with my Soliloquy 5.3s but seem to have a hard time with vocals or instruments that should be centered...they seem to want to exist to the right of center. I can somewhat correct this by toeing in the right speaker more than the left(I tend to toe speakers in toward the listening spot), but this seems more like a bandaid than a real fix and doesn't fully correct the problem. Moving the right speaker back doesn't seem to help either. Here's the wierd part. When I switch the speakers I still get the same result. I would have expected the center image to shift to the left, but it still skews to the right. I've recently had other speakers in my system and don't have this problem, so I don't think it's the electronics. Also, this happens regardless of what room the speakers are in, so it doesn't appear to be just a room thing, and I've tried different cables as well to no avail.

This is driving me nuts, so I hope you guys have some thoughts or insights and your help is GREATLY appreciated.

Tim
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Showing 1 response by wirehead

Wywhcan has the easiest solution. If your speaker set up is symetrical but your room isn't then don't expect balanced sound in the listening spot. I've been toeing in and out for months and discovered if I toed the left channel speaker more, which has a sofa beside it and about ten feet of room to the side wall, then it sounds balanced with the right channel, which doesn't have as much room. I'd read somewhere that you should just experiment until it sounds right and don't worry about the aesthetics.
Regards,