Question about speaker angle


I've always been under the impression that your front main speakers should be angled so that the "face" of the speaker is basically perpendicular with the listener's face when viewing the speakers from the sweet spot. I do however see others placing the speakers parallel or inline with the surface of the wall behind the speakers. I'm wondering, how much loss to the sonic sound stage this creates.

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i think perhaps we are making this topic of toe-in angle harder than it needs to be

1) start with manufacturer suggestion

2) if it is a common speaker, note the suggestions of other users, perhaps

3) rotate in or out based on your preference, just do toe in/out each speaker the same degree... try varying increments

speaker maker knows the dispersion pattern of the speaker ...but doesn’t know your room, how reflective the first side bounce is, the dimensions of your listening triangle... so some common sense and experimentation and listening is need to assess what is ’goldilocks’ setting...