Speaker adjustment tweak -- worked a treat for me

[apollo]

Did some measurements, hacked into my brain to recall some high school trigonometry, and calculated the elevation to be closer to 5 degrees

Looks like my eye estimation was way over the top

[jandl100]

yeah - 20 degrees and the speaker would probably fall over if the drivers are near the top.

[Mr Kipling]

The idea is not a new one and dates back to at least the '80s. Didn't work for me when I tried it back then.

Here's an alternative. Haven't tried it myself due to domestic arrangements.

P.S.
One speaker manufacturer used to supply small wedges for use with their speakers to tilt them up. Can't remember if it was Yorkshire Hi-Fi.

[The Grand Wazoo]

One speaker manufacturer used to supply small wedges for use with their speakers to tilt them up

Heybrook did a thing to go between the HB2 speakers and stands - it was a bar shaped thingy which went across the front edge.

[YNWaN]

Linn made stands for the Isobariks (the last stands they made for them) that had metal spacer bars at the front that angled the speakers back by about two degrees.

Jimmy Hughes had some pretty esoteric ideas (might still have) with regard to speaker positioning; DSJR (Dave) knew him pretty well in those days and often heard his system.

[Alex_UK]

Wasn't it Jimmy Hughes who advocated firing speakers backwards at one time? I remember trying it, though I could't see or hear the attraction!

[jandl100]

I went to Jimmy Hughes' flat once - a split level living room, the speakers were on the lower level, the listening chairs on the higher level. The firing of the Isobariks at the back wall worked quite well in those circumstances and kind of squirted the sound around in a somewhat omnidirectional manner. Strange but true.

[icehockeyboy]

I went to Jimmy Hughes' flat once - a split level living room, the speakers were on the lower level, the listening chairs on the higher level. The firing of the Isobariks at the back wall worked quite well in those circumstances and kind of squirted the sound around in a somewhat omnidirectional manner. Strange but true.

A bit like the philosophy that Bose use with their 901's?

I heard that Amar Bose worked out that when at a live concert, approx 90% of the sound reaching our ears is reflected, and the other 10% direct, hence his design of 8 drivers reflecting off a wall, and 1 forward facing unit.