Monopole or Single Driver Speakers Room Placement

rollo · « **on:** 1 Jan 2020, 06:56 pm »

Should a monopole be less than one mtr from front wall or over two mtrs ? Some say in between those distances is NOT a good location. On long wall or short wall ?

charles

Tyson · « **Reply #1 on:** 1 Jan 2020, 08:22 pm »

Generally the further you can move a speaker from a boundary, the better.

Wind Chaser · « **Reply #2 on:** 1 Jan 2020, 09:19 pm »

Quote from: Tyson on 1 Jan 2020, 08:22 pm

Generally the further you can move a speaker from a boundary, the better.

+1

Long wall vs short wall depends on the room. Height should be identical to the ears.

JLM · « **Reply #3 on:** 2 Jan 2020, 12:05 pm »

The Cardas website has interesting advice for speaker/listener placement. They heavily rely on Fibonacci ratios for room dimensions and speaker placement with a mid-field setup. As always generic advice should only be used as a starting point, after that let your ears be your guide.

I have a Fibonacci room (8ft x 13ft x 21ft) and used the Cardas advice as a starting point for narrow wall mid-field setup (speakers centered 33.5 " - 0.85 meters from side walls and 55.5" - 1.4 meters from front wall).

Letitroll98 · « **Reply #4 on:** 12 Jan 2020, 02:20 pm »

https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=87093.0

https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=163879.0

Just sayin...

poseidonsvoice · « **Reply #5 on:** 12 Jan 2020, 04:34 pm »

http://arqen.com/acoustics-101/speaker-placement-boundary-interference/

At this stage of the game, I would recommend doing measurements with REW, along with following the guidelines put forth in the Arqen link above. Letitroll has some nice links as well, but his second link reads more as one person's opinion regarding how acoustics should work and seems devoid of scientific merit.

Just sayin...

Best,
Anand.