In my 70th year, this is the best and most comprehensive explanation of listening sonics I have encountered.

Excellent! Absolut excellent and it is so sweet the way you bring in your family life while walking us through the acoustics of speaker design. You truly have the humor and the intellectual headroom to capture it all. Thanks again.

My hat's off to you Tarun. You've created more than a YT channel. Your viewers are interacting with one another to help each other with audio topics. Well done!

I played around with the placement after watching this and the setup guide. What an improvement for zero investment. Thank you so much Tarun!

All of us subscribers should thank you for sharing your audio knowledge with us and the wonderful way you explain things. Thank you sir and stay well

Thanks Tarun, I moved my Atc Scm 40 passives to your recommended distance and it made a huge difference. The bass improved the imaging improved . Thank you for your very clear and detailed advice in your video

As usual, you have a great way way of explaining these things very simply and on the whole, correctly.

If the better half says you can’t move the speakers further out from the wall then simply get a builder in to move the wall further back. Problem solved 👷🏻‍♂️

This is refreshing to watch a video without all the extraneous noise and drama and just straight to the point. I'm simply an enthusiast who enjoys listening to something that I would like to think to be 'better quality' than the average setup and casually learn more about everything related to passive speaker systems and headphone setups. Now that I've found you I look forward to watching more of your videos. Liked and subscribed!

What a fantastic video. Everything is explained so well. The content quality of your videos just keep getting better. Excellent work Tarun.

Congrats Tarun on reaching 20k. Well deserved, your content is on point and well delivered. Hope the lockdown isn’t too stressful, I could imagine Diwali must have been very different this year. Hopefully we’ll have the opportunity to see loved ones from the wider family/community again soon

Awesome! Well done hitting 20K. Thoroughly deserved. Don’t be humbled - as I’ve said before, you have a special way of explaining technical subject matter to non-technical people, and this video is a very good illustration of that. Keep ‘em comin’!

Thoroughly enjoying your channel, which I just found. The admirable dad moment at the end: taking care of background “room gains” earned my subscription 😎 nicely done!

Thank you Tarun for another excellent video. As usual a clear explanation of a complex topic. And it's great that your son and dog are part of the show. As a subscriber I'd like to thank you for this entertainining and informative channel. And your pesonality shines through on all of them. Congrats on 20k subscribers. I hope your audience keeps growing.

You deliver the most consistent and thorough explenations I’ve heard on KZfaq. Thank you. I have made a trade-off of putting my Devialet Phantom Gold a bit to close to the side walls. Will have to reconsider that and try moving them out. Also I’m enjoying my Poly-Mojo-Oppo PM3-setup listening to you.

This was a great video Tarun. Really appreciate the effort on your part. I learnt a lot. Please keep them coming.

Yet again an incredibly in-depth review and great info indeed. Thank you so much for sharing.

"you may want to watch this video"..... oh I feel a binge of your vids coming on. Thank you for your time and effort, all the best.

That's great, I have elsewhere not heard the issue so clearly and simply explained of early reflections and the distance to rear and side walls needed to generate at least 5 ms delay, thanks so much for your time.

Dear sir, this video was exactly what I needed. Instead of buying more expensive speakers as an immediate remedy, I have spent few hours playing with the speaker placement according to your suggestions. The results are dramatic.

Absolutely excellent video. This has given me something to think about and I shall be experimenting with my own system set up. Thank you for sharing. It’s a pity we are only able to give you one thumbs up!

Congratulations on your subscriber’s number! I love your channel and appreciate all you do.

Another great presentation! I'm fond of a 10 millisecond reflection. I'm also a big fan of nearfield listening. Thanks again!

Enjoyed your video as usual. It was very thought provoking for me. I never really understood the time smearing affect of placing speakers close to walls. I will definitely research this some more. Thanks!

You certainly know how to make a great technical explanation of room acoustics. Bravo!

Thanks for your video. It’s refreshing to see an explanation in terms of physics, not opinions! I have a rectangular room and due to the furniture I was forced to set up on the long wall. I’ve moved the speakers about and I find that having them 4” from the wall works, even though they are rear ported. I think what I now need to deal with are reflections off the wall that is 18” behind my head. I will buy some absorption panels and place them there. I am not absolutely convinced of the need for bass traps as I live in a modern house without solid walls and my amp keeps a very tight grip on the speakers.

Great information Tarun, a lot of people will find this useful. A few years ago a chap local to me put his TDL Studio 1's up for sale, he had owned them from new and they looked as they did the day he bought them. He really did not want to part with them, but he had recently moved home and was being forced to use them in a relatively small room. They were close to the rear wall and the sides, they sounded quite dull and bass heavy when he demonstrated them. My man cave is 4m x 5m, a similar size to his room, but I knew I had more flexibility as regards placement, a rap on the wall behind his speakers also revealed drywall construction. I suspected his walls were not helping his sound. I did suggest to him that he could skin the wall, adding another layer of plasterboard, but his wife also felt the speakers now dominated the room so his hand was forced. I picked them up, with the stands for the price he was asking, a measly £200 the pair. They sound great with a solid wall behind them. Basically, as you mentioned, the materials the room is constructed from can affect the sound greatly. If folks with problems have a drywall room, they might consider adding an extra skin under the guise of redecorating :).

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I enjoyed the no-nosense delivery, concise descriptions, and calming tones. Liked and subbed.

As always another very interesting video. I think this is the first time I have really understand about speaker placement. Thanks and keep up the good work

Well...after watching your setup/speaker positioning and top tips videos I convinced my wife to let me convert our dining room into a listening room (it's the best room in our house for it), she even moved all the furniture for me! I got the hifi kit out of the bedroom and set it up downstairs and wow what a difference, I think it needs a bit more tweaking but it's so much better than in the bedroom already, I just need some comfortable seating now and I'm set, so thanks a lot for all the inspiration and advice :)

I've learned alot from watching your videos and you explain everything in a very good and understandebel way, so I thank you for that and wish to congratulate on reaching 20k subscribers.

I surrounded my speakers with books to sort of act as an extension of the baffle and, in my small room, I was very surprised at how wide the sound-stage became, the speakers disappeared more while also gaining extension in the room. The back of the speakers are just 10" from the wall. We have a cafe/bookstore I've struggled to figure out a speaker placement for. Now I can't wait to try it there and hear what it does. In an actual bookshelf it may sound different but worth the try. Thanks for mentioning this in your video. I would have never guessed.

Excellent Tarun!! I second what J Ked said. In my opinion you became a standard how the audio reviews should be. ( this I am saying after 8 to 10 years reading/listening to audio reviews and this including many prominent/top reviewers ) Great work!!!

Very enjoyable and well presented, a nice technical approach without being overbearing. Keep up the good work please.

Fantastic episode! Please keep these episodes coming!

20k+ I’m not surprised tarun as yours is one of the few channels actually explaining complex matters & helping us hifi enthusiasts learn about the often used words in hifi which most of us know but don’t really understand, add to the fact that your not just reviewing new product after new product spouting the same ole strap lines & filling your boots with £££’s. I have problems with my room acoustics which I’ve never got to grips with this will definitely help me. I was wondering what’s your thoughts on open baffle speakers, their gaining popularity & popular in the USA, certainly seem to fix a lot of problems which box speakers create, very linear & the definition of notes is magical. Seem to have all the detail of electrostatics but with bass & a wider stereo image. Thanks again for another in depth video

Generally I use the tone controls. When I'm getting serious I pull my speakers out a couple extra feet. My room is not great, and the wife won't let me keep my speakers 4 feet out in the living room for very long. Another great video. Thanks. Btw, I just built a subwoofer box for my tool locker at work. I made it sealed and agree with everything you just said. Really does a great job. I'm an electrician in a factory and I put together a system to rock out the maintenance shop.

Hi Tarun, Since you actually had the courtesy to thank me for responding positively to your channel, I thought I might ask you a question you touched upon very briefly in one of your speaker/room acoustics discussions: Having moved into a new apartment-(my first ever purchase!) I’ve decided to finally go for a really satisfying system, and I’ve naturally decided to start with new loudspeakers. I’ve got a pretty irregularly shaped living/dining room whose shape would best be described as like an inverted Erlenmeyer flask with the wide base being the wall where I plan to place the loudspeakers, and the couch in the neck. The room (were it squared off) would be about 5.5 x 7.3 meters. I have hardwood floors, very large windows on about half the walls of the room, and the backing wall has mirrors. So this starts out as quite live, though there will be double screens on all the windows that i hope will noticeably dampen reflections (I have the sunscreens down most of the time) I have paintings, a soft couch and leather chairs, and I intend a low-pile rug covering about 1/3 of the space, to include underneath the speakers and couch. I’m looking at a pair of hybrid open-baffle speakers that have the midrange and extended tweeter mounted as a dipole on a plexiglass open baffle, with a wide-ish boxed bass enclosure (9.5” driver) that is rear ported. I wish I could hear them live-only heard them recorded on the internet… they were reviewed well… anyway what I heard I simply loved. They come with resistors that can be used to tune the output of the tweeter to one’s room which seems an excellent idea, and I would expect to be using a bit more resistance in this room, but we shall see… The question is: do these dipoles follow the same measurement rules for placement and matching with the room as more traditional designs? I really would prefer to place them closer to the rear wall than 85 cm for space/useability considerations, but I could make do with 85 cm, and I could put a sock in the rear port and/or put absorbent material behind the speakers if needed… the bass enclosure would be below the wall mirrors, but the mid and tweeter would be right in front of them… I thought the open baffle and dipole design might be less directional than typical designs, and the designer/company founder claims they are very forgiving regarding placement…

Thank you too, for the wonderfully presented videos.. Wishing you all success in the future..

Great video Tarun as always. In my lifelong interest with music and hifi I have found that the sock bonged into a ported speaker design to reduce bass output unfortunately tends to play a bit of havoc with the midrange response causing some coloration. I have also found that listening position relative to the back wall ( wall behind the listener) also is of great importance, when it comes to bass response. Personally I’m sat with my ears just over 2 feet in front of an absorption panel resting on a window ledge behind me. Well, we could talk room acoustics for days I have no doubt 👍🏼 All the best Peter

Many thanks for your great lesson. I really need to focus about the matter and every time I move them I get different sound performance. The best is to place the speakers far from the walls.

Happy to be a subscriber, your videos are always interesting to watch. I am unfortunate to have to place my speakers close to a wall but fortunate to have vintage speakers that in my opinion work well in that case. They are rear ported speakers but have quite a tight base (we used to call that dry base back in the 80's but I have the feeling this definition has changed a bit over time). Any way, the result is still a tight but also a punchy base and I think that if I would move them out they would sound too thin. An other interesting aspect is that back in the late 70's early 80's it would be quite easy to find literature recommending placing speakers closer to the wall or even to the corner of a room to augment the base. I also think modern speakers are designed to go deeper but are also woollier than many vintage speakers.

Great Video Tarun, well explained, As always. Glad to see your Channel reach the 20 000 subscriber mark. Greetings my Friend, be safe 😉

I enjoy the way you explain things. Well done!

Another well constructed and perfectly presented video 👍

Congratulations on the 20K subscribers reached. Knew this was coming. I saw it when from the first video I saw of yours. You have an easy and laid back style which lends itself to attracting more attention. People can easily be annoyed by know it alls. You make no such claims ergo you have more people to watch. It is also possible to learn the hows and whys the way you do your videos. Keep up the good work Tarun. You’re going places here! Stay safe mates!😊👍🏻😷

Can’t even begin to say how helpful this has been! You’ve directly and succinctly tackled the big issues, but also in a manner that’s realistic (and affordable). I’ve ordered some somewhat substantial corner bass traps for my small room, to be places in the corners next to my Quad s2’s and hopefully tame the 70-200Hz bump I’m getting. But will also implement/experiment with your suggestions 🙏🏼

Great topic, well presented as usual. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

As a speaker and acoustics engineer it is refreshing to hear someone with a decent grasp of the basic principles involved. In a nutshell your room dictates what happens more from 350hz and below than you have control over. Baffle step is the frequency below which wavelengths wrap around the speaker but if I may, it is still a pressure system and not wholly reflective. Think of earbuds. They work on a pressure basis. The baffle step frequency at which sound starts transitioning from 2 pi to 4 pi space is proportional to baffle width and edge design for refraction. As you correctly theorise, early reflection takes place at a period of time proportional to baffle step wavelength frequency delay to the rear wall and distance to the listener. Speed of sound is about 340m/s. Baffle step can be calculated from baffle width as can refractive out of phase direct refracted baffle edge sound and these are critical to perceived accuracy of timbrel quality of lower frequency sound which is why wide baffles will always provide better upper bass detail but at the cost of more panel resonance direct sound contribution unless accounted for in design. The 6dB increase is usually accounted for by the speaker designer in even passive crossovers. Bass traps do not work unless several feet deep...not 6 inches! You can more efficiently use helmholtz resonators to passively achieve the same as dsp but with the significant advantage of not messing up polar response. I have to correct you on your statement that ported designs dont control bass well. They do if designed properly. It's an annoying urban myth to hear such things repeated I'm afraid. At least this is true if properly designed as there should be NO peaking if properly designed. I use distributed vent tuning in my flagship Canterbury and Malmesbury speakers. These are tuned to partially modulate driver impedance for lower group delay of bass and flatter response. I am happy to send you a few articles I have written on the subject. Sealed boxes work just the same close to the walls. The real problem is most designers do not design their ported systems properly and deliberately peak response to make them sound more impressive. Please do get in touch if you would value some articles specific to this topic. Paul

This is exactly what I needed, thank you!

Congratulations Tarun💫 Helpful job⭐️ Cheers👍

Well, I'd say Your channel growing so quickly is a direct result of the excellent quality of Your vids - just like this one: Pretty much all the relevant info on the topic wrapped up in a well organized, easy to follow package. About that 12% direct sound thing: I may be wrong here, but I thought this holds true for big rooms like concert halls; In fact, I believe that the Bose 901 speaker with one driver firing forwards and eight to the rear was designed around a naive misinterpretation of how big room acoustics work. Either way though, reflected sound definitely plays a huge part in the sonic performance.

This is such a great explanation, thank you. Coming from headphones, I was having a hard time sorting out what was going on when I decided to purchase speakers. I may have to put speakers on hold as my living room acoustics and placement options are limited. The soundbar sadly may have to stay.

Great video that explains some situations to better place speakers!

I remember all these problems from way back , moving speakers only a couple of inches could make a huge difference. I'm a headphones only man at this stage, for various reasons, however I do understand the huge problems associated with speaker placement and room acoustics. once again, excellent video,

Fantastic. You are extremely well informed. HAAS effect! Sabin effects (reverberant sound). Back wall isn’t nearly as important as side walls for early reflections as there is very little rear wall reflected energy above 300Hz in forward facing speakers (and none where are ears are super sensitive around 1000Hz). Rear wall room gain is good for direct sound quality of upper bass (million $ studios place soffit mount speakers in the wall) but it does excite room modes more heavily (ultra LF bass response). Books packed around and flush with baffle doesn’t work so well (lots of edge diffraction from the sharp book binding edges unfortunately). Sealed box indeed work better close to rear walls. Your advice is spot on!!! Rear wall quarter wave bass cancellation is an important consideration - due to symmetry of speakers and listener with respect to the rear wall surface this is usually quite strong. Close to rear wall (less than 3 feet to front baffle) or far from rear wall (more than 8 feet to front baffle) is a good place to start - anything in between is likely to have a quarter wave cancellation in the bass at a specific frequency.

Thank you - I really enjoyed and benefited from your excellent video.

Great informative information moved my Klipsch RP600's slightly wider apart and now it appears that the base is coming from the middle when sitting in the sweet spot thanks for sharing information

Hey Tarun ! So much to learn from your videos ...👍Happy Diwali !

Great video Tarun. Many thanks for the knowledge. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎱🐙😺

It is so plesent to listen to you...beside all other positiv atrbutes your presentations contains

Enjoyed the chat m8. I'm using socks in ports and rolls of carpet in the corners behind the seakers. Just about keeps bass under control.

A treasure trove of information. Thank you! :)

That was a superb video Tarun, thank you. I discovered your channel yesterday, and have watched quite a lot of your videos since. They're really very good, and I've learned a lot. I've also just re-organised my lounge, and things are already sounding a lot better. I'm forced to place my speakers near the back wall, and am currently comparing 3 sets of speakers that I have available to me. I'll definitely experiment with stuffing the ports! Thanks again.

I use small stand mount speakers and think you need the speakers a bit closer to the back wall, if you pull them out too far you lose that mid bass coupling. Also depends on what type of walls you have. Most new homes have the hollow drywalls, so reflections are less of a problem than traditional hard walls. Modern houses have rooms that are too small so doesn't leave you with much option for placement. Also room shape, square or rectangle will have a bearing. More importantly you need to find a speaker that best fits the room.

As I thought, your channel as of recent is sure flourishing based on the 1K thumbs up I am seeing after only 3 days! Humm, I must be either a fortune teller or just really understand great content when I see it!🤔🤔🤗😉😇😜

Happy New Year Tarun !! Wish you the best for you and your family , This is a much awaited video for me , understand that and my house is same where your with different settings now where your vine storage is I have to place my right speaker there and it has only 3 feet away from the wall abs on the other side it’s 17 feet where you have your dinning table that’s long distance so when I listen to my recordings images are not in centre but more on left side right after the speakers , how can I improve my image to that sharp and pointy middle centric ?

Another great video. Reason I got the Yamaha R-N803D amp. I can play with the base level and as I have found out, it is a lovely sounding amp anyway. DSP works although I turn it off sometimes as some music plays nice and warm with it off. Yamaha has the YPAO which measures the room and when it is turned on there is a noticeable difference in the base.👍

Nice tight explanation and I can confirm that you are very right. If you can't get away from the wall enough then go as close as possible - with the matching speaker. I'm myself in the problematic situation with my room and how I have to place everything. I also use the system for TV/movie and gaming-pc. All not possible to place central or move them forward. But it happens that this unfortunate meet my very old and a few years ago customized (with new midrange driver and tweeter as well with a self designed, high quality components, 3-way type.2 crossover) Sharp-GP6200. Pretty hefty, big sealed box from think late 80's. And putting them like 3-7cm near the back wall and the right one also smashed right to the sidewall give them like a loudness effect and sound very nice with full and precise bass and wide stage and good instrument position... So, my recommendation is simple: if you need/ want more low frequency just try to put them near the wall and see if it works or if you sacrifice more important things so you need another solution;)

Great information and easy to understand, I love it! I was recently looking at a bunch of speakers and ended up with the Klipsch Forte III, a large part was due to the fact that the owners manual and various reviewers said they sound best close to the wall (seems their bass and especially the 15" passive radiator is setup for that gain to be there). They might not be as refined as other options but they're still a lot of fun with the music I listen to! I'd love to have a dedicated room where I can put the speakers anywhere but for a living room the significant other said they need to be out of the way.

Great video, and perfect timing for me. I have struggled with positioning speakers - my seating position faces a big wall but the only option for speaker location is hanging on that wall, either on a shelf or fixed directly to it. I buried my wires when we replastered and am planning to put up some JBL Control 1 which have a bracket to fix them directly to the wall. When not hung up, the speakers sound very weak on the bass end, but on the wall are much better! Your video seems to explain this well. My question to Tarun and the audience are about whether I should think to upgrade to Dali Oberon 1 speakers, which have a socket on the back for wall-hanging. The speakers have a rear port, which sounds like it would be best filling up if they sit close to a wall... anyone got suggestions/comments?

Really enjoyed this one, thank you

Hi taran , another very interesting and informative video quite a few parameters to consider in speaker placements, I have been trying to find the best place in the restraints of my lounge . Kind regards mark

Thanks ... Really appreciate your contributions..

Absolutely love the video, you've gained a new subscriber! One question though, if let's say I were to design a loudspeaker that fits in the corners of a room (so the baffle blends into the two walls without having to make an in-wall speaker) and then linear-phase EQ using FIRs were used to linearise the response (due to the bass reinforcement that would occur). Could this be an adequate close-to-wall placement method?

Hi Tarun, great video - thanks. I notice that your listening room is similar to mine with a protruding chimney -breast. Should the critical 85cm from the back wall measurement take that into account, or can I ignore that and just take the measurement from the front baffle to the back wall/alcoves? Regards, Ian.

I've been putting at least a foot between my speakers and back wall, but just recently I heard the idea to push them back close to the back wall and making the distance between the speakers and side walls disproportionate to the back wall. Now, they are 4" from the back wall and >12" from the sides. That instantly improved the sound overall. I would say even the bass became better, not boomier. Adding some bass traps to my corners may improve it, but I've yet to try.

You mentioned that positioning loudspeakers with rear ports close to the wall will cause a bloating in the bass. I have Klipsch RF 63 with three rear ports and they are about 4 inches from the back wall due to room constraints. I noticed that on some music, like Miles Davis Doo Bop, the bass sounded rather huffy for lack of a better word. I thought that I would rather not plug the ports as the loudspeaker was designed for ports and instead I put two cushions behind them. And hey, presto, problem fixed. It is not a placebo effect either as I tested it with a cd and vinyl I listen too frequently and also the Miles Davis Doo Bop one. Thank you for implanting an idea in my mind. Simple and cost me nothing and fixed in a few seconds. Also I find it astounding how the sound waves from all frequencies rearrange themselves with the subwoofer in the mix.

Thank you for a very educational video!

Sealed speakers of past like NS1000s benefit greatly from getting placed as close to the wall as possible. Thanks for bringing this subject up. Ported speakers benefit from being placed away from wall and also the reward is better imaging.

Excellent video Tarun. I was also thinking, another possibility, would be to have stands at the ready, to place your speakers out into the room, when you want to critically listen and have greater sound stage and depth. Speakers could be placed back against the wall after the listening session, and significant other will be happy.

Clear explanation. Useful knowledge.

Tarun, this was very interesting and a little different in content to other set up videos I have seen. Well done! I just wanted to chip in. I am using a desktop set up mostly in lockdown whilst I work. My Dali Menuets seem to do nearfield well but it’s interesting how big a difference a small adjustment makes. With them pointing at near head height but slightly below it was like listening to a miniature band just behind them. Now I’ve raised the front of the speakers at a small angle that band in miniature has gone and the sound field is more complete.. but which one is right and which do I actually prefer?? Perhaps a subject for the future?

Thanks again Tarun, another in depth video on my favourite subject of speaker placement. I'd love to hear your thoughts sometime on (speaker) cable lifters, worthwhile or not?

Thanks for this a great video and just what I need as my listening room is probably going to be around 9ft square, plus it is also going to have to incorporate my computer and photography stuff. As a result my speakers will have to be located close to walls, at best I may manage about 30-40cm away from a wall. Not sure if you can help with this but I’ll ask anyway, do you have any suggestions on speakers to audition, I could run to around £750 for the right ones to partner my ageing Arcam Alpha 8 amp. Brilliant series loving every video, keep it going.

Wow. Very refreshing content here!

what outstanding information! Thank you.

The most comprehensive, concise and yet practical explanation of room acoustics for stereo listening that I have heard. Well done.

Over the years I’ve enjoyed many different types of speaker. All floorstanders and with one exception all rear ported. I’ve never had the luxury of a dedicated listening room. My hifi rig has always had to fight for it’s right to be, in our family lounge. Excluding my current speakers, all of my rear ported speakers produced high enough air pressure from the rear ports to extinguish a burning candle, so, needed to be placed a good distance from the wall behind them. My current speakers are 133cm high, 21cm wide and 53cm deep. They have 2 rear ports each. The ports are tuned in such a way, that even at high listening levels, 95db plus, there is virtually no noticeable air pressure from the rear ports. In my circumstances, this is good as it means I can place the speakers close to the wall behind them with minimal impact on sonic performance and earning bonus points with WAF, ‘wife acceptance factor’. I do, however seal the ports with the manufacturer provided bungs. I have recently upgraded my amp to a much more powerful pre-amp and monoblocks. I expected to experience issues with excess bass energy. I have a medium sized, acoustically untreated room. Quite the opposite, I found the bass to be much more controlled and restrained. So much so, I’ve removed the port bungs to improve the acoustic mass. I suspect this restrained bass is down to the amps damping factor of 2500. I currently have the rear of the speakers placed about 20cm from the wall behind them, with the inner edge 2.5cm closer, making them very slightly toed in. I guess the narrow front baffle helps. I have played around with speaker placement and ideal listening position. My current set up offers a good balance between sonic performance and WAF! I also have a pair of subs, located on the inside edge of each speaker. By no means ideal, but it works well in relation to the listening position. If anyone can offer me a dedicated listening room with in a mile of central Bristol, you may just save my marriage!!!

Closer than you think..... Super pleased with my £295 PSB Imagine B speakers, impressed. Haven't put my AE1 Series 2 back in.... Still love the AE1's but the PSB's are better if not as iconic.

Thank you for the clear explanation!

Hi! Question, do to my room configuration SVS prime bookshelf on weighted stands have to be placed 2+ feet away from sliding glass door drawn curtains of medium thickness, I have no sub woofer yet, with these curtains is this a negative , a positive or neutral effect situation? Thanks you, Blanca

Great video, really interesting - thanks Tarun. I fall squarely into this because my room is far from ideal giving me no choice but to have one of my B&W 606s in a corner (although it is stand-mounted). However, and I ask this as a relative newb to all of this, would a subwoofer help if it’s taking the bass notes thereby mitigating some of those issues with placement?

Thank you so much for this important video. I am currently having issues with just this subject of speakers close to the front wall. I was listening to Gamblers blues by Satchmo and it’s hard for my Proac DT 8s to separate the clarinet in the beginning from the other instruments. My room is 17 feet wide x 12 feet long. With me sitting on the long side unfortunately the way the room is created. I will try and position my speakers at the 85cm mark to see if that clears it up Also when I do this since my listening distance is dictated by the 12 foot font to back wall depth will I have to also adjust me speaker toe in as well as distance of speakers to each other ? Thank you so much. Please if you can it would be great to have a few Q&A videos.

Great stuff Tarun

Really good info ! Thanks !

First time coming across your channel. Well done! This vid made me realize, I don’t understand volume very well. If sound is a wave, what accounts for the db’s?

Awesome vid! What suggestions would you give to someone with a pair of Zu Omens? They feature a down firing port (four of them really) out the bottom.

This is excellent information 👌 thank you

if the listening room and budget are small, mission lx-2 is a good alternative. Plays nicely close to the back wall, and even in a bookcase. It has bass reflex with port on the back. But it does not create problems. It also comes with foam plugs that change the character of the bass somewhat