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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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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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johnk
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Designed my audiorooms for such use when I designed my home so now it takes me about 30 mins or less to properly set up a loudspeaker to match room and system. Sure I may make slight changes but mostly since rooms designed for it its fast and easy. I have about 6ft between my mains but they are 80in wide 


kosst_amojan
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@hifiman5 
The room is effectively about 22x16. I've got a dining area to my right and a hall going back to the right of the right speaker. The asymmetry of the space has posed challenges. It seems like the closer they are together the more the dining area influences their interaction. Setting them up along the short wall was a total flop they had no bass response unless I put my chair in the dining room and the speakers in the middle of the living room. In other words, all those stupid formulas are useless. I tried that Cardas calculator the other night. It said I should place them in the dead center of my room. I don't think so! 
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stevizzy
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Every year or so I seem to find a new “perfect” spot for my speakers. It’s like getting new speakers free. 
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hifiman5 OP
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@tomic601   Didn't realize you have the Vandy 7 mk.II.  That plus the other gear you have listed must make for a fabulous system.  I'm betting that high ceiling allows the 7s to produce quite the soundstage.  You are definitely playing in the "big leagues".
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