In article , Laurence Payne
wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:49:19 -0000, "TonyL"
wrote:

What's to work out? First thing to do if you want a stereo image is
optimise speaker placement. If you can't get an iPod and one of
those playback docks. You'll still hear the music, and won't waste
money on pretending it's "hi-fi". (If you really want to
ostentatiously waste money, I expect Bose make one :-)


I want a proper stereo image not just "hear the music" and I'm looking
for ways to achieve this in a room that is used by other people and
contains furniture. So, there have to be compromises...that is what
there is to "work out".

I don't understand your references to "pretending it's hifi" and
"ostentatiously wasting money". Care to explain ?

I have a horrible feeling that speaker positioning is something you just
can't compromise on if you want a good stereo image.

My experience supports that. Alas physics doesn't give a damn about what
people might find 'convenient'. The reality is therefore that the location
(and pointing) of speakers, listening position, and room acoustics all
generally conspire to mean getting a really good image can be difficult.
Maybe impossible with some room/speaker combinations.

That may well explain why it seems so many people have never heard such
imaging and confuse it with 'sound coming from around and about', etc. So
have no idea how dramatic an effect it can have upon listening to be
presented with a good stereo image.

Slainte,

Jim

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