.73 ratio for Left/Right measured from?
This is an odd question I thought of a long time ago but never asked. The .73 ratio mentioned in the Ascend manual for separating the stereo mains...where exactly do I measure from? Do I measure from the corresponding left/right sides of the speakers to determine the ".73" distance, or do I measure from the midpoint of the speaker enclosure? Does that make sense? I'm assuming I should measure from the center/midpoint of the drivers, but I thought I would check.
Silly question, I know. :)
PS: Yeah, I get in the tweaking mood now and then :p
Re: .73 ratio for Left/Right measured from?
Since I've moved into my new house in May I have been unable to set up my Sierras properly due to a number of factors(money, newly crawling baby, etc.,...). Before last night I had my front three Sierras sitting on the edge of a long (~5') low (~14") coffee table about two feet away from the wall. There was less than two and a half feet between the center and either of the L/R speakers. I found that center channel dialog was almost impossible to understand, and I was always bumping up the the center channel volume +5-6 in order to hear it clearly. Of course this made any effects coming from the center channel uncomfortably loud. So last night before watching RocknRolla on Blu Ray I moved my right channel on to the top of my Rythmik D15 which sits in the front corner of my room. WHAT A HUGE DIFFERENCE!!!!!:D Dialog was clear, effects panned across the front soundstage so much better, I was grinning the whole movie.
Then this morning I swing by the forums and do a search for speaker placement and find this thread. I sit ten feet from my speakers so according to the .73 rule of thumb my speakers should be 7'4" apart for best imaging. I just measured them in their new locations and it came out to 7'2" tweeter to tweeter. Amazing. Really I can't do the increase in sound quality justice with my description. WOW!