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I want to buy a new three-piece speaker set for home, to listen to music and everything else. I'm asking Refdesk for advice on where to put these to get good accoustics.
I had the impression that it is somewhat bad to put a speaker right next to a wall, and better to leave some space behind the speaker. Now obviously I don't live in a mansion, so I won't have a huge room with a meter of empty space around my setup, but I do have at least a little bit of play with where to put the speakers.
So I'd like to know if this guideline is actually true, and how important it is. Is it better to put speakers not directly next to a wall? What is the distance scale? Does it matter also for the bass speaker, or only for the others?
I am not dedicated to get a very high quality sound system, so I'm going to buy not too expensive speakers, and won't rearrange everything in my home just to make it sound better. But if there's something I can easily do to improve the sound, then I will do it.
Let me describe the room where I'm going to install the speakers, in case it matters. This is a house made of concrete panels, so all the walls, including the interior ones, are solid concrete, there are no drywalls. I'll put the speaker in the smallest room, which I use as a work room with a computer. This room is 1.7 m wide left to right, and about 2.2 m deep front to back. Most of the back is occupied by a deep storage cabinet, except a little in the back right corner, which is cut off by a wall. On the left is a doorway that is permanently left open and leads to the larger bedroom. On the left half of the front door is a window (modern double-glass) in a recess (thinner part of the wall). At the entire width of this front wall is my immovable desk, 0.8 m and 0.7 m deep on the left and right respectively, with the computer monitor on it. On the right wall are 0.3 deep open bookshelves. I'm planning to put the right speaker somewhere on the bookshelves, where, if the speaker is 0.2 m sized, I can easily move it so it's 0.1 m away from the wall. The left speaker will either be sitting on the desk, or ideally attached to the left wall on the front side of the doorway somehow. I'm not sure where I'll put the bass speaker but it probably doesn't matter too much.
Let me also describe what inspired this question. Right now I'm listening to the 2021 Wiener Philharmoniker New Year's day concert live. The stage is densely packed with musicians, looks cramped even by pre-2020 standards. Because of this, the double bass players in the back are sitting right next to the back wall in these shallow cubbies. I presume on a high quality concert like this, they wouldn't let the musicians be that close to the wall if it hurt the accoustics.
– b_jonas 11:32, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
I'm listening to the 2021 Wiener Philharmoniker New Year's day concert live. As usual, it has a track where the video shows a ballet dance. This time it was for Johann Strauss sohn, Spring voices (Frühlingsstimmen) waltz op. 410. In which small castle and its garden was the ballet located. – b_jonas 12:05, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
I was just listening to the 2021 Wiener Philharmoniker New Year's day concert live. The conductor of the orchestra, Riccardo Muti, was wearing a small round red badge pinned on his suit. What is this badge and what does it mean?
– b_jonas 12:47, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
The red pin badge that Maestro Riccardo Muti was wearing during the 2021 Wiener Philharmoniker New Year's day concert is the lapel pin that is given to laureates of the Praemium Imperiale. Maestro Muti received the Praemium Imperiale in the category of music at a ceremony in Tokyo presided by the Prince Hitachi of Japan in 2018. https://www.praemiumimperiale.org/en/laureate-en/laureates-en/muti-en https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoSymphony/photos/maestro-muti-wears-a-lapel-pin-denoting-his-latest-honor-japans-praemium-imperia/10156289693028049 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tokyowikieditor ( talk • contribs) 2021-01-12T08:57 (UTC)
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I want to buy a new three-piece speaker set for home, to listen to music and everything else. I'm asking Refdesk for advice on where to put these to get good accoustics.
I had the impression that it is somewhat bad to put a speaker right next to a wall, and better to leave some space behind the speaker. Now obviously I don't live in a mansion, so I won't have a huge room with a meter of empty space around my setup, but I do have at least a little bit of play with where to put the speakers.
So I'd like to know if this guideline is actually true, and how important it is. Is it better to put speakers not directly next to a wall? What is the distance scale? Does it matter also for the bass speaker, or only for the others?
I am not dedicated to get a very high quality sound system, so I'm going to buy not too expensive speakers, and won't rearrange everything in my home just to make it sound better. But if there's something I can easily do to improve the sound, then I will do it.
Let me describe the room where I'm going to install the speakers, in case it matters. This is a house made of concrete panels, so all the walls, including the interior ones, are solid concrete, there are no drywalls. I'll put the speaker in the smallest room, which I use as a work room with a computer. This room is 1.7 m wide left to right, and about 2.2 m deep front to back. Most of the back is occupied by a deep storage cabinet, except a little in the back right corner, which is cut off by a wall. On the left is a doorway that is permanently left open and leads to the larger bedroom. On the left half of the front door is a window (modern double-glass) in a recess (thinner part of the wall). At the entire width of this front wall is my immovable desk, 0.8 m and 0.7 m deep on the left and right respectively, with the computer monitor on it. On the right wall are 0.3 deep open bookshelves. I'm planning to put the right speaker somewhere on the bookshelves, where, if the speaker is 0.2 m sized, I can easily move it so it's 0.1 m away from the wall. The left speaker will either be sitting on the desk, or ideally attached to the left wall on the front side of the doorway somehow. I'm not sure where I'll put the bass speaker but it probably doesn't matter too much.
Let me also describe what inspired this question. Right now I'm listening to the 2021 Wiener Philharmoniker New Year's day concert live. The stage is densely packed with musicians, looks cramped even by pre-2020 standards. Because of this, the double bass players in the back are sitting right next to the back wall in these shallow cubbies. I presume on a high quality concert like this, they wouldn't let the musicians be that close to the wall if it hurt the accoustics.
– b_jonas 11:32, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
I'm listening to the 2021 Wiener Philharmoniker New Year's day concert live. As usual, it has a track where the video shows a ballet dance. This time it was for Johann Strauss sohn, Spring voices (Frühlingsstimmen) waltz op. 410. In which small castle and its garden was the ballet located. – b_jonas 12:05, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
I was just listening to the 2021 Wiener Philharmoniker New Year's day concert live. The conductor of the orchestra, Riccardo Muti, was wearing a small round red badge pinned on his suit. What is this badge and what does it mean?
– b_jonas 12:47, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
The red pin badge that Maestro Riccardo Muti was wearing during the 2021 Wiener Philharmoniker New Year's day concert is the lapel pin that is given to laureates of the Praemium Imperiale. Maestro Muti received the Praemium Imperiale in the category of music at a ceremony in Tokyo presided by the Prince Hitachi of Japan in 2018. https://www.praemiumimperiale.org/en/laureate-en/laureates-en/muti-en https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoSymphony/photos/maestro-muti-wears-a-lapel-pin-denoting-his-latest-honor-japans-praemium-imperia/10156289693028049 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tokyowikieditor ( talk • contribs) 2021-01-12T08:57 (UTC)