Widening the sweet spot

Crikey Paul, you forgot to mention your book and CD, the audiophiles guide to speaker set up 😮, so I thought that I should do so on your behalf 😊

Thank you for the demo and info, 👍🏼 Hope your back gets better 🤞🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

Paul having done a bit of research on scoliosis i would wear a custom back brace with adjustable straps on my waist each side were i could adjust the tension on certain points to support & adjust the spine to help it straighten & sleep on my back with my knees bent feet flat on bed preferably a hard floor service having had a curved spin problem few years back the sleeping a certain way really helped me later in the day i gave this advice as you are special to me you help so many people enjoy life & teach them youre gained wisdom i thought i would return the favour 😊❤❤

You can widen the sweet spot immensely by buying dual concentric speakers (Tannoy, Fyne, Zu, some KEF, I'm sure there are others). Paul, sorry about your back, I got the same thing. I finally learned exercises at physical therapy and do them myself every other day. I'm 75 yo and my back issues went away. Aleve worked great for me for years. Then I started having kidney stones. Nephrologist says Aleve does that. I love my PS Audio electronics. I love my Tannoy Cheviot speakers. All the Best... 🙂

I have scoliosis too! Keeping my back strong and a theragun has been a game changer! Awesome videos!

I am sorry for your back...i hoop you dont have a lot pain..thanks Paul.

Great information!

take care Paul...!

Paul get yourself an inversion table, do in the mornings when you get up and in the evenings before bed 20 minutes each you can just lie upside down you can do some squats other exercises if you want a few reps start off with. and just relax upside down it will sort you back out!!

If I was designing speakers again, I would point one driver 5 degrees to the left and one driver 5 degrees to the right and two in 0 degrees offset. This would widen ideal listening spot. I built a set like that at 12 years old and it blew anything away I could find commercially available at the time with my budget. If I sold them in the 1980's I might be big as PS Audio is today. I was offered $2500 for the set from old guys that heard them. $2500 in 1985 was a good amount of money for a 12 year old. I got some ideas from the Radio Shack book called "Building Speaker Enclosures" by David Weems. I had a really nice wood shop with all powermatic tools to use whenever I wanted. Not wanting to start a business at 12 is my biggest regret in life.

Next question...how do I optimise a satisfactory G spot?

My current living room was a nightmare to setup, others have been much easier. As long as you know what you're trying to achieve and how placement and room condition affects the sound, you'll eventually get there.

From the video one could conclude that wide sound stage is a matter of somehow finding the right speakers and towing them in very slightly. Not much of a recipe... What gave me best results thus far (though maybe I don't have the right speakers? ) is aggressive toe-in, where speakers cross fire before the central seat. This way, as you go sideways, you get closer to one speaker - but you get off its axis and on the axis of the other, farther speaker. Assuming the speakers radiate most on their axes, you may compensate for getting closer to one by getting off its axis, thus widening the sweet spot. One caveat is that different transducers and even different frequencies radiate differently off axis. Some loudspeakers shall have more consistent off-axis characteristics in this respect than others, for sure.

What’s the recommended distance between the speakers? That affects imaging alot too.

Boy now that I see ALL the Aspen speakers together I'm really wishing the FR10 and 5s were gloss black like the other two. I really want to purchase both the 5 and 10s but I'm not a fan of satin flat finished cabinets. I wonder if you can special order piano black for the smaller ones. Have to wait and see.. 👀

Not all tweeters react the same. Some project a much wider Sweet Spot, than others. Case in point, the EPI 100v speakers I picked up... have one of the widest and deepest sweet spot areas, that Ive ever come across in Any other speakers tweeters. The only thing that was kind of close to them... were some Ribbon Dipole tweeters that I heard... but they created odd echo distortions in the store, where I was listening to them play.

Do the passive (not connected)FR 5’s interfere on the connected FR30’s in the listening room?😎

Good day paul a tip for youre back i think a weight lifting back support style belt will help relieve youre back pains that is what i would do is try it see if it helps bro 😊❤❤

Hi Paul, this video shows pretty good your speaker setup. Is it a misperception or do I not see an even sided triangle? Seems that the width between the speaker is smaller than the distance from speakers to the listening position. I’m a wrong? Thanx Stefan (Steven)

What's the latest news on the stand-mounted speakers?