Speaker Toe-In

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Originally Posted by rwojtalewicz

If you sit at the apex of an equilateral triangle wrt your L and R fronts, then little or no toe-in is required because the angle between you and your fronts is around 60 deg. You should be getting good imaging along with a wide sound stage too. A little toe-in may help imaging but you don't want to collapse your soundstage with too much. If the angle is less, say 45 deg or so, surely no toe-in is needed. Your sound stage will likely collapse if you do so. However, if the angle is > 60 deg, which may be your case, then you will probably want to toe them in some to get rid of the 'hole' in the middle effect and still have good imaging. Try doing it a little bit at a time though until it sounds natural. So you need to do a little geometry first to get an idea of how much toe-in you can use or get away with.

Hmm..I've never seen these angles used when discussing toe-in. Did you come up with these on your own? Or are they from another source? I have mine pointed in right now, almost towards the center seat. Perhaps I'll take a look at the angles I have and experiment a bit.