What s in front of your chair?

Nothing. Is it unconfortable without anything to rest your legs on? Sure. Did I try an ottoman an found it sucked up enogh freq to effect soundstahe and ambience? You bet. In fact, I have found out the best listening chair type is the beach chiar with couple of pillows to bring your ears to the tweeter height. Beach chair is open underneath, sides and behind your ears. The later feature especially very very important if you want really open sound. If you guys have been listening with comfy closed-in high back chair, just once try a beach type chair and you will thank me for it. Meta, Try first with bunch of pillows .

A director's chair works well unless you are, like me, er..gravitationally challenged (hence the "elgordo"). And yes, glasses make a difference as does one's nose! This is why Michael Jackson took Quincy Jones' advice and had all that plastic surgery done. That surgeon's mask he wears was actually designed by Michael Green and is filled with Sonex. See, Jackson isn't weird he's an audiophile. Wait a minute...what's the difference ;>)

Rhljazz made the comment "Just buy a good comfortable scandanavian recliner and matching ottoman and sit back and enjoy." Bear in mind that if you do this, your system will sound different at each position of the recliner. Sitting straight up, your head will be higher (maybe not a bad thing!) than if you have the chair reclined. What's more, in the reclined position, your head is closer to the back wall, and sound can dance off your feet, so to speak. Even the angle of your outer ear in relation to the drivers will change. EVERYTHING makes a difference! I have a ceiling fan in my listening room, and even though I turn it off before I listen, I'm sure my system sounds different from one session to the next depending upon the orientation of the blades in relation to the speakers and my ears. What's an audiophile to do? Construct Sonex sleeves to slip over the fan blades before listening? Years ago an audiophile friend of mine had little pencil marks on the edge of the shelf his components were on, next to his listening chair. In retrospect, having the nice, shiny, hard, reflective components on his right side and open air on his left was not a good arrangment, but the fact is, he actually used those pencil marks as a guide for the positioning of his head in order to achieve differing results while listening. No wonder he gave up the hobby and took up computers. Now, THERE'S a hobby you don't have to be neurotic about. Right.

How about a barber chair on a motorized base? One could pull the lever to adjust the height, drive it around the room until the ideal spot was located and then retract the "landing gear" to set it on either spikes or Sorbothane feet!

Everybody above is extremely funny...
Guys, I don't mean to upset anybody's senssssityvity (OOPS the metal tweeter is acting up again), but it seems to me that the simple fact that somebody is concerned with that much of a difference in sound makes me wonder if any of us actually LISTEN TO THE MUSIC, AND NOT THE SOUND OF OUR STEREOS, excuse me - our SYSTEMS.
Just my 0.02