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What’s Your Triangle in Stereo Speaker Listening?

Which triangle is your stereo speaker setup?


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benanders

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What triangle best describes your stereo speaker setup relative to main listening position (MLP)?

Caution: some Isosceles look like Equilaterals, without actual measurements! o_O

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Please consider a post with setup details.
Useful ingredients include:


(1) Triangle leg measurements (metric or imperial, pref to nearest cm / inch) appreciated.

(2) Speaker make / model ( = easy for readers to look up manufacturer specs) appreciated.

Photo(s) with the above typed details welcomed!
Multiple systems okay to enter.

Past systems okay to enter IF you recorded above ingredients
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Fake entries :mad:‘ed upon.
Car audio, headphones and assorted mono creatures (e.g. HomePod / JBL Charge / solo Devialet) inapplicable.

Let’s keep it constructive!
 
Isosceles (between-speakers leg longer) with Genelec 8331

between speakers: 2m
speaker-ear-distance: 1,30m to 1,60m

Wider stereo panorama is my preference.
 
Isosceles - between speakers shortest. Speakers are Kef Q750 (stereo and multi-channel setup)
Between speakers dist of 2.1m and 4.3m speaker to ear.
Not ideal, but quite constrained by the room.
 

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Equilateral, 2m on all sides (Doesn't matter what speakers I'm using that day)

These are Acoustat SPECTRA 1100s. "Objects in photo are much closer than they appear." The wide angle lens is very deceptive.
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9' all round has offered the most spaciousness while retaining imaging in my main system in the recreation room. (Isosceles in the living room to achieve WAF :))
 
As close to equilateral as possible, in line with the international standard listening room layout:
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Isosceles, 5 ft between speakers, 6.5 feet from each speaker to listening area. But I started measuring the room (15ftx15ftx9') with REW and found that
sitting farther away and somewhat Scalene(12 from left speaker, 11 feet from right speaker and still 5 ft between them) gives a better response. I have the speakers toed in so I want to set them parallel with the room and remeasure.
 
Maybe 11 feet between speakers, my chair is about 10 feet out.
 
Just voted for multichannel. Although my setup is really for stereo, enhanced with a center speaker via LCR matrixing.

Left......9ft.......Center.......9ft ........ Right


............................14ft


........................listening

So speakers' arc 18ft wide, is long isosceles leg.
 
Downstairs system. Stereo with sub.
Isosceles - between speakers leg shortest.
Between speakers - 1.71m
Speakers to ear - 1.77m
Speakers - Kef q4
Pretty close to equilateral, but not quite.
Again, pretty constrained by room + waf.
 

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More toward equilateral and off wall.
Yeah, that would likely be better. The good thing about the q4s is they're front ported and don't sound overly boomy near walls.
Plus my 6 year old uses this system a lot to practice her dance moves and I'm worried she'll knock one over, or put a flailing elbow into a tweeter if I bring them out any :p
 
Equilateral for myself, I sit just inside the triangle

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Equilateral for myself, I sit just inside the triangle

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Isosceles speakers leg longer? Measurements or it's not equilateral :p
@benanders what is the leeway, btw? Within a mm, a cm, or say within 5 cm?
 
I’m equilateral, ~1.8m. I guess you could call that nearly near field. With speakers pointing straight forward this gives me great 3-dimensional imaging. Visitors to my listening room usually suspect hidden speakers in the absorber panels on the sides.
 
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