Pat Farrell;191190 Wrote: > > But its a bookshelf speaker. It says so right on the box. > It has to be properly placed if its on a shelf.
I guess it depends on what you are trying to achieve as a marketer of speakers. Most speaker companies that promote their small speakers as "bookshelf" are ones who are trying to market them as a "lifestyle" product...one that can fit on a bookshelf. Most high end speaker companies I'm familiar with call them "monitors". > That you and I agree it is not proper placement is the point of > publicizing the tweak. > > The point is that bookshelf speakers do not belong on the shelf. Again, my only issue is calling proper speaker placement a "tweak". > So sometimes its not so minor. But is can often be temporary. > Putting speakers into the room usually has lousey WAF, so you have to > put them back when the spouse wants to have the room look right. Some > of > us can't afford to have a dedicated music room. But that has nothing to do with "tweaking". It's simply setting the speakers up properly when you are using them, and putting them aside when you're not. It's almost like saying "turning on your amp is a tweak, because you only do it when you're listening...otherwise, you don't want to pay for the electricity when you're not listening." > And I agree that many rooms don't allow you to be five feet from all > walls, but it is a good goal, since five feet out gives you 10 > milliseconds delay between direct and reflected sound. Would you compromise the distance between the speakers just to get further from the side walls? Certain speakers, like horns, are not as susceptible to side and rear wall boundaries, so the focus should be on optimizing the space between them and the distance to the listening position. Others, like the aforementioned Klipsch speakers, are designed to use room boundaries (and corners in particular) to achieve the sound they are supposed to delivery. > Using the spikes that came with your speakers is cheap (they were in the > > box), and works great, but I just spent $3000 refinishing the hardwood > > floors, and so I'm not going to use them. Why not get those spike cups to put under the spikes to protect your floor? -- PhilNYC Sonic Spirits Inc. http://www.sonicspirits.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PhilNYC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33956 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
