Been playing with speaker "toe in" this evening. `I had not messed around too much with it previous to putting in some room treatment but now the effect of toeing in the speakers has a much larger effect than before and is extremely responsive to the slightest angle but what is more interesting is how the recording are revealing hidden micro details as well as bigger effects like soundstage layering.

Keeping the speakers facing head on gives a huge sound stage but some detail and imaging is lost even with the first reflection panels. But get the toe in spot on and all sorts of magical things happen. Bass becomes more even and less diffused, Imaging in the soundstage is fantastic. Depth of recorded information is easily heard.

Recordings now sound almost like putting headphones on where you can pin point everything and hear tiny details in the landscape.

I have learnt so much about speaker interaction with the room over the last few months and still keep discovering more. The information and the way the system now sounds is so much greater than before, I would suggest it may even be more significant than buying a new amplifier or cartridge or at least on a par!

It will be interesting when all the acoustic panels have been manufactured and installed and what further sonic discoveries are to be revealed. Waiting for more material at the moment and we need to find some more decorative stuff but even the first few panels have had a very significant effect. Eventually I may try some bass traps if I can work out how to build something that is WAF friendly.