What are your room dimensions?
Ceiling Height?
How far apart are your speakers, and how far away is your current listening position?
How far is each speaker from the sidewall?
Is there any way to put the speakers on the short wall, and then pull them out further into the room and move your listening position back, assuming your room is rectangular and not square?
Please describe the rest of your equipment?
At what freq. is your subwoofer crossed over at?
Are you driving the Main Speakers full range or are you just adding sub bass at the lower frequencies?
What is your room like; wood floor, carpet, glass windows, etc..?
How's your neighborhood? Maybe you want to move!! (LOL)
If you hear an improvement in sound with the upgraded cables, than it's not a waste of money.
I agree with your friend that your speakers are too close to the front wall. In my experience; depending on the type of speaker that you have and the room size, I have found that 3-4 feet from the front wall works well in most situations, for sound-staging, and bass coupling to the front wall. My distance is measured from the rear of the speaker and not from the front of the speaker.
How does it sound, too close to the wall? Is it muddy, dull, boomy, narrow depth perception, poor sound-staging, imaging?
If you can describe how it sounds now, then maybe people here could advise you better.
Rich
Ceiling Height?
How far apart are your speakers, and how far away is your current listening position?
How far is each speaker from the sidewall?
Is there any way to put the speakers on the short wall, and then pull them out further into the room and move your listening position back, assuming your room is rectangular and not square?
Please describe the rest of your equipment?
At what freq. is your subwoofer crossed over at?
Are you driving the Main Speakers full range or are you just adding sub bass at the lower frequencies?
What is your room like; wood floor, carpet, glass windows, etc..?
How's your neighborhood? Maybe you want to move!! (LOL)
If you hear an improvement in sound with the upgraded cables, than it's not a waste of money.
I agree with your friend that your speakers are too close to the front wall. In my experience; depending on the type of speaker that you have and the room size, I have found that 3-4 feet from the front wall works well in most situations, for sound-staging, and bass coupling to the front wall. My distance is measured from the rear of the speaker and not from the front of the speaker.
How does it sound, too close to the wall? Is it muddy, dull, boomy, narrow depth perception, poor sound-staging, imaging?
If you can describe how it sounds now, then maybe people here could advise you better.
Rich