Speaker Placement - Frequent Placement Changes?

toro3 OP

I have 1 room: 2 channel music one end, small home theater across the other end of the room. the 2 chairs in the middle simply turn around as desired.

dbx soundfield 100’s are for the home theater.

I use their principle of cross dispersion with my music system sealed box speakers.

They are Custom Made, similar to Cornwalls, 15" woofers, horn mid; horn tweet, but the innards are all electrovoice drivers, crossovers, L-Pad controls.

here’s the innards

the parts all came from a 1958 Fisher President II Console I inherited from my Uncle Johnnie in 1973. That’s how I got hooked on great sound and tubes

https://www.audiogon.com/systems/11420

The unit was up on 8" bronze legs, the woofers fired downwards, I made taller enclosures to face them forward, increase cubic feet, and a rear vent that is closed here, it was open in prior location with no wall behind.

I have a pair of Acoustat 1+1's and they're pretty darned persnickety about placement with regards to sound stage. Add in the inevitable requirement for compromise in a shared living space, in this case the living room, and my options become more limited. A couple of weeks ago my spouse noted that the speakers seemed further in the room. By two inches. "Really hon? I hadn't noticed..."

That said, they are pretty much in the ball park where they are usually so good on me. 

Additionally, because they are so sensitive to placement every few months for fun I tweek them a bit for a different stage. Accutely toed in they produce a fairly wide sound stage. However, seemingly counter-intuitively, if I open the angle a bit the image becomes pinpoint sharp in the center and moving my head either way skews the sonic image. It's pretty amazing really.

Anyways, nothing productive to add to the post. Just wanted to chime in. 

Happy listening.

Wives should come with Wheels for Speakers!

Wives should come with decor tolerance. 

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