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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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docknow
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I bit off-topic, but I’d like to give a plug for high accuracy measuring devices.

I use a Leica Distro Last Tape Measure to locate my Martin-Logan speakers in the room to within 1/8-1/16 of an inch from the back and side walls.

I then use a digital level (Swanson Tool Co SVT200 9 Inch Savage Digital Magnetic Aluminum Billet Torpedo Level) to get the vertical "cant" of the speakers equal to within 0.1% of a degree (I prefer bolt upright).

Both of these make a audible difference, are one-time purchases, and are generally useful around the house.

-docknow

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