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How far and wide? NSMT speaker placement

Greetings, when I heard the NSMT's at Teajay's place they were like 15 feet or more from the front wall. He played Copeland's Fanfare for the Common man and holy smokes the drums were all the way behind the speaker to the wall which as mentioned was 15 feet or more (lovely post and beam house).  I have been playing with my speakers in my small place and when I got them to 34inches out into the room the depth changed for the good!  It was astounding.  I am going to move so I can have a larger room as this room is limiting my speaker placement ability. 

How far and wide have you found to work in your room?  Love to hear other's experience.

Best

JH

johnah5

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My son’s system;

Rear of speaker enclosure approx. 6ft out from front wall. Center of drivers approx. 5.3ft from side walls. Room is approx. 18ft wide x 32ft long.

Speakers; Magico S3 Series1

Streamer / DAC/ Amp; Mac device running Qobuz or Apple Music driving Devialet Expert Pro 220, either via Air (Devialet streaming utility), Airplay, or USB (‘helped’ by W4S Recovery).

Soundstage is very open / large (deep, wide, high) with no sign of constraint. There are specific regions in the bass which display resonance but it’s not too dreadful. Generally sound is well balanced and open. The mids on the magico are incredibly open of course. Primary listening position about 9 feet away from baffles. Speakers are toe’d in where driver centers are pointed to intersect about 2-3 feet behind head at primary listening position. Its a living room so unfortunately no proper room acoustic treatments. No doubt could sound much better, but its not bad at all especially at primary listening position.

 

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