some interesting thoughts and theories in this thread, but it has become to me at least the golden rule that a change of speakers demands that you forget about where the last ones gave best effect and you start again, all the modeling and papers published can mean nothing unless a specific speaker and set of room conditions becomes the reference,even then it cant be real world type analysis, as a for instance , my mate phones me to say something is wrong with one of his speakers, can i come over? yes i said, i go in and he says listen to this, sure enough from the listening seat the sound was brighter in one speaker! i get up and pick up two magazines and put them under the seat , problem solved . another example, my system sounded quite good in my last flat, i decided i would decorate to keep her in doors happy, she chooses some paint and off we go, after the quick spruce up i carefully put back everything as it was and to my horror the sound had changed for the brighter and the soundstage was kinda confused, what the ~@:£% i say, so i go through the system and every thing is as was, turns out the old paint was matte and the new paint silk finish and that was it, i got the same colour in matte and re did it and all was back as was, would any of the positioning theories or analysis have fixed the issues?
granted i have only had about 20 listening rooms over the years and they have all been shared rooms with other purposes that i had my system in, but what i learned is that you should throw the rule books out the window and trust your ears and experiment, if you cannot find that sweet spot then you consider what might be the problem . to say that A should be this and B should be that is outrageously narrow minded ,
but with that rant over its up to you and your own personal OCD
have fun,
lots of love,
matt
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