[JohnR]

Nice-looking setup, Steve. I had never thought of that option.

[JohnR]

It's my private room - loudspeaker placement is dictated by room acoustics only. Usually those allow less choices than my wife.

Good point, Rudolf Was there a formula you used to arrive at that location or was it done by measurement? Or by ear?

[JohnR]

My placement of speaker and chair is typically the following:

Speakers are in a corner, and are 1.5 feet away from the "side" walls at the closest point to the speaker.  There are bookshelves "behind" the speakers, leading to the gear that is placed centrally in the corner.

Thanks Mark. Did you try a "wall" placement? Just wondering your reasons for the corner orientation.

[JohnR]

Interesting poll results so far. Open-bafflers seem overall to be generally fairly unconstrained (other than geometry and acoustics) in their speaker placement. I'd had a different impression of speaker placement for "normal" speakers. Is it that people tend to not try (or stick with) OB if they don't have that freedom?

[fsimms]

I am single so I voted that I have full choice of speaker and seating position.   My speakers sound best when out from the wall a few feet but I won’t leave them there permanently.   I have a small condo.  The speakers and the TV are in the living room.  I don’t want my guests to have to walk around my speakers so I will move them close to the wall.  Sometimes we are our own nags. 

Bob