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Speaker positioning?

I'm trying to figure out where in our living room is best to put our speakers. The room is 14'x25', and "bright" sounding. We just got a puppy, so floor "treatment" is unlikely soon, and I haven't talked my wife into wall or ceiling treatments.

I used to have the speakers about 6-8 feet apart in the middle of the long wall, and sat about 6 feet from them. They seemed too bass-y crammed against the wall like that.

Now have them along a short wall, at one end of the room. They are 2-3' from the side wall, and 4-5' from the back wall. I sit about 10' from them. This has helped the bass, but now the high-end seems overly bright.

We are on the verge of bringing some furniture in and putting the stereo gear into it (electrician and all) -- this may make my choices more or less permanent! I don't want to lock in anything I'll regret.

I would appreciate any suggestions on other positions to try.

Thanks!
ehart

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I have a room of similiar size

cardas' rules don't exactly apply
but you can reinforce frequencies by using the odd divisions of the room placement (see fac listed below)

place the speakers along the long wall
equal distance apart as there are from your listening vantage point. You need to bring the speakers away from the wall, experiment with distance by every two inches. Listen for good stereo seperation but a good pinpoint central image with things like a female singer on a recording where she is located on a central track. Speakers too far apart, you will hear a lack of focusing in the center. My setup gives great focusing and nice separation well beyond the edges of the speakers.

see the audioasylum fac on speaker placement or do a search at audiogon on speaker placement

http://www.AudioAsylum.com/audio/scripts/d.pl?audio/faq.html
the audiophysics method is fairly sound

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