perfect placement for speakers

Either you have more speakers than you have room, or one of your speakers is hosed. Do you have another pair of smaller speakers you can hook up and see if you have a stable center image? I'm still not clear if you have ever had a stable center image in that room at any point prior to your new speakers.

When I look at the picture of your room, it appears to have a bunch of reflective surfaces. Given the small space and reflective surfaces and large speakers, you may just have sound bouncing all over the room.
 
True, but even so, at low volumes, he should still get a focused center image, unless his system cannot do it. I suggest sitting closer, toe the speakers in, and keep the volume relatively low. The phase identification track with Roger Skoff's voice is a very narrow band of frequency without any other musical information so it should still work.

I like your suggestion of using another pair of speakers also
 
Hi guys,

I listened to all the tracks , including those testing high and low frequencies. All work fine without any problem as far as I can hear. Yet, as I play music, esp pop songs, the voice seem to get skewed to the right hand side a little, not all the times but sometimes so I guess something is wrong yet don't know which part. I have tried to swap the right and left speakers yet it still happens so the possibility that the problem is coming from speakers can be quite low I suppose. Could it be due to source / wires?

For the imaging problem, I have tried to lower the volume, up the volume, everything I can do, yet the image is not tightly focused. This is the only working speakers I have. As I said, I used to own other equipment yet had sold them all.

One last question: Same as the out of phrase track, the speakers should 'disappear' (you don't feel it's in existence while you listen to that track) for the in phase channel testing 'tightly focused image', am I right?
 
Are you confident that your speakers are not too close to the rear wall? This is what bothers me looking at the picture and the plan.
 
Julot said:
Are you confident that your speakers are not too close to the rear wall? This is what bothers me looking at the picture and the plan.
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Hi Julot,

How far do you suggest then? You're the first and only one telling me this though.
 
Which is why I kept quiet so far -- but for me the default ideal position is at 2/3 of the room. I would definitely put at least 1m between such big machines and the rear wall. I may be spectacularly wrong, of course, but that would be my instinct.
 
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