How to find the best spot for your equipment
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If you have your speakers on the short wall, it's more convenient to get up and take a few steps to the sidewall than to make the trek all the way over to components located between your speakers (unless your speakers are on the long wall and your components are on the short side wall). Plus, there are at least three significant performance advantages to locating your components on the sidewall, about half way down the length of the wall, if possible:
(1) Your components won't interfere with the soundstage as much.
(2) There'll be less visual distraction. Therefore, it's easier to "suspend your disbelief" that there's a musical event happening over there between the speakers.
(3) Most importantly, the point in the room where the bass is least strong is probably somewhere in this area. So sound waves will impinge less on the sound of your components, especially if they are vacuum tube, or if you have a turntable to play LPs.
Some will ask, "But what about the detrimental effect of longer speaker or interconnect cables?"
The overall advantage of locating your system where it will have less effect on the audio soundstage, where it will be less distracting visually, and locating it where airborne feedback cannot affect performance will ALWAYS offset any advantage to be gained from shorter cables.
Jim Smith
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