General tips for setting up speakers

Stereo triangle

You can use the stereo triangle as a good rule of thumb when placing your speakers. This means the distance between the speakers should be the same as the distance from your listening position to both speakers; in other words an equilateral triangle.

Damping

If your room…

a)doesn’t allow you to get the speakers the required distance from the back and side walls or…

b)has highly reﬂective surfaces (i.e. glass windows or bare plastered walls) or…

c)still doesn’t sound quite right

…we strongly recommend that you ‘damp’ your room’s critical surfaces. This can be done simply by adding curtains, furniture, bookshelves and so on. A damped surface is almost always preferable to a hard reﬂective surface.

Depending on the placement of the speakers, room size, sound reﬂecting surfaces, furniture, etc, it is entirely up to you how you ﬁne-adjust the placement, angling and damping. Remember to take your time and use your ears.