Speaker placement, Faster Runaway Horse capture, rope-it!

[AverageNiceGuy]

Adjusting speaker placement using the Ballad of the Runaway Horse.
www.MySpeakerSetup.com Bob Robbins. technique, 
is a time-consuming process, but I’ve sped it up by roping the horse.

I used a string to pull the speaker position. 
Instead of constantly making small adjustments with hand and foot,

I used hand and rope (string).

I seemed to get faster audible results using Spanish Harlem, Rebecca Pidgeon initially.

Somehow the high frequencies in the official tool (horse song) were distracting for me.
Ballad of the Runaway Horse, Rob Wasserman, Jennifer Warnes.

The end result is good!

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[26gary26]

Clever !! Whooooaa  Nelly

[405x5]

I prefer a deal with no strings attached

[405x5]

Feb 3, 2024 13:42:11 GMT -5 26gary26 said:

Clever !! Whooooaa  Nelly

 agree Wilbur!

[AverageNiceGuy]

Feb 3, 2024 13:42:11 GMT -5 26gary26 said:

Clever !! Whooooaa  Nelly

Yeee... Haaaw 😂

[ttocs]

I'm a big fan of Bob!

I use his explanation from RMAF 2014. Going to 17:50 in the video he's asked if there is only one placement in any given room, to which he says no, and then proceeds to describe the process for speaker placement in a room.


My speakers are pretty hefty and cumbersome to lay down to remove and replace the feet, and I considered doing what you did AverageNiceGuy , but it would've been quite a lot of work to replace the footers with rollers and then duplicate the height, rake, and toe after removing rollers and replacing the footers. But I'm happy to know someone who has been successful using that strategy!

Without Bob's method I would not have explored outside of my comfort zone to the degree that I did, which would've meant that the speakers wouldn't be toed-in like they are. I also would've been struggling with the image-centering because I previously thought the speakers should each be setup as mirror images of each other, but no, that is not always the case. The right speaker (near a corner) is about 4-1/2" farther from the front wall than the left speaker (near the middle of the front wall) which gives a perfect center image without the need to adjust the Gain Level - which had always confused the imaging of various audio content, which I think was caused by phasing/timing issues.

See the video below for info on the acoustics of image centering. The entire series is really well done.

[AverageNiceGuy]

Heavy speaker edition!

[405x5]

Fifty years ago, Speaker placement and their interactions with the room were addressed and researched extensively by Roy Allison of Allison Acoustics.
Some very interesting speaker designs were born from all of that as shown here. Depending on the dimensions of your listening space, some effective solutions were to be had.

[AverageNiceGuy]

Very nice.
I'm glad that I studied a bit, and applied better speaker placement.
Now I can easily hear the improvements in better speaker cables.