Speaker distance

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — almost all speakers are too far apart. The speaker placement track on the XLO Test CD points out that, all things being equal, one should start out about 4 feet apart and slowly work outward. You don’t want to miss the sweet spot. 😛 Folks often instinctively think wider apart means wider soundstage but that’s an Old Wive’s Tale. 😃 Ditto toe in. It all depends, it depends a lot on room treatments, for one.

Dynaudio Special 25, 8 feet center to center, room is 6 meter X 10 meters and 1.5 meter from the back wall with slight toe. Speakers need to breath.

I have room treatment and have spent hours with speaker placement.

Depending on the weather (literally) my soon to be new set up will allow the speakers to be anywhere from 6' apart (when the wall heater is not used) to 8 1/2' apart during the winter. I sit about 7'10" from the front plane of the speaker and will soon be able to increase it about 6"-8".

This is the one aspect I've always been unable to address due to room set up but with my next speaker and base, it will be much easier to move around and experiment.

All the best,
Nonoise

Golden Ear Trition Reference (pair) set apart 7 feet (essentially form an equilateral triangle to the PLP).

I recently placed my Mosaic Acoustics Illuminations back in service and they are 5 feet apart center to center.