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Speaker Placement - When it's perfect!

So many audiophiles have commented that when your room treatment is completed, your electronics set up and tweaked and most importantly, your speakers are set up in your listening space correctly that you'll know it because everything just sounds so "right" and natural.  I just accomplished that feat in the last two weeks.  I say two weeks because I needed to play a wide variety of recordings to be sure that I'm there.  It is so great to have finally hit just the right set up.

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that it has taken me well over a year of experimentation to get to this point.  It's not that other placements yielded poor quality sound its just that now everything sounds like a live event (as much as any of our systems can).

I would really appreciate hearing about your journey to the promised land of audiophile/music lover bliss.  How long did it take, what were the most difficult aspects of the journey?  And if you have yet to get there, what do  you think is the "brick in your wall"?
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kosst_amojan
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@geoffkait 
There you go with the hocus pocus I was talking about. 4 feet? I don't even need to try that to know it would sound like crap. Mine are about 12 feet apart. Ain't no big hole in the middle of the image either. Quite the opposite in fact. It's well focused and very coherent. 
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geoffkait
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costco_emoji,

You wouldn’t kid me would you? Do you think I fell off the turnip truck yesterday? I didn’t say 4 feet anyway. Try to pay attention. I said *start* with 4 feet. That way you won’t overlook the real absolute distance, which is often a lot less than folks out there think. I won't mention any names.

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jayctoy
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Hifiman5 thanks, yes it’s all worth the patience....
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hifiman5 OP
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@kosst_amojan  Just wondering what size your listening space is if you can have your speakers 12 feet apart?
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tomic601
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Hifiman5 forgive me for first words should have been congratulations!!!! 

In short yes 11 bands of EQ , Q and level helpful as is the laser jig used to aim the 7
those along with math and Vandertones are the starting point for good sound.

a comment about rooms from RV : most dedicated rooms are sterile and lack natural diffraction- i can assure you with books, music, art furniture, the odd this and that including a sleeping Labrador, we lack not in natural diffraction!
my currrnt space needs much less EQ than most - with 4 openings a very high slopes ceiling, loft, etc - it does not need much tuning...
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