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Re: [microsound] [ot/tech] monitor placement



jon wrote:

i was wondering if anyone can help:

- what's the best placement for nearfield monitor speakers?

That's a huge question :) Broadly (assuming a stereo setup):

- Your listening position should form an equilateral triangle with your monitors, with 1-2m between you and them.

- Your montiors should be aiming straight at your ears, preferably on the same plane, but you can angle them from above.

- The monitors should be some distance from the wall behind them (>1m), or completely flush with it.

- Small (i.e. most) rooms will have problems with standing waves at some low frequencies, creating peaks and troughs in the frequency response. This can be helped with some absorption on the walls behind the montiors and behind you (a sofa behind you is quite good at absorbsing LF). Stereo imaging can be helped with absorption on the side walls.

YMMV, natch.

There's a bundle of stuff on the web :)

- is there any issue with placing a speaker right on top of a (hi-fi) amp? will it cause problems? does this depend on shielding?

Quite possibly, try it and see. It's also quite possible, depending on what bits of the amp jut out where, that you will experience reflections from the amp that will affect your listening experince (mastering engineer Bob Katz argues against the common practice of placing nearfilds on the top of the console for this reason, reccomending instead that, if needed, one sets the speakers up at right angles to the console and puts up with indignity of turning round to listen / tweak in return for letting the monitors do their job).


hth
Owen
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