First advice is to experiment a lot and decide for yourself. There are a lot of other details such as room acoustics that are hard to advise on in absentia. And fortunately those little guys are a lot easier to reposition than some 50kg floorstanders....
My starting point would be to put them on the front of the shelf, so that the front of the speakers lines up with the front edge of the shelf, or even overhangs a little bit. Also, even though their ports are on the front, how close they are to the back wall will make a difference, especially in the perceived bass response. If you want more low end, move them back towards the wall, which also means having more shelf in front of the speaker. In some cases that gives unpleasant reflections, in other cases it gives the extra oomph that a listener is looking for. As for higher shelf or lower shelf, it depends mostly on how high they are. Most often you want the speakers at ear level when you are in the main listening position(s), which for a home living room is usually sitting down. So whether that is the lower or the higher shelf depends on how low your lower shelf is. The Touch's RCA cables are nothing to write home about, and I don't know about the cables that ship with the A2s. If you want to upgrade from those, you can get good quality, reasonably priced, no-BS cables from bluejeanscable.com. I like the LC-1 RCA cables (to go from the Touch to the L speaker) and the "10 white" or "12 white" speaker cables (to go from the L speaker to the R speaker), but there are plenty of other good alternatives. I wouldn't worry about it until you get the placement where you like it. Enjoy! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96045 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
