Comments on: The Sweet Spot – Nearfield Monitor Placement

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:24:27 +0000

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By: Record, Mix & Master

Record, Mix & Master — Thu, 26 May 2011 08:54:30 +0000

Hi Raudio, this works out at precisely 38% of the room length which is widely acknowledged and accepted to be the best position to sit whilst listening. Positioning your chair at this point with your ears at the same height as the tweeter gives the most direct sound from the speakers whilst avoiding room modes, points in the room where reflections of the sound waves off the rooms surfaces, meet with the direct sound from the speakers thereby causing given frequencies to be either cancelled out or boosted depending on frequency and time. My sweet spot is calculated by the formula above and the result is an incredibly accurate listening position!

By: Raudio

Raudio — Wed, 25 May 2011 18:35:14 +0000

Hi Simon..From my experience,i have never heard or seen this formula before.Listening positions are 40% of the room length and this is generally accepted.Your formula has eaten up nearly half of the width of the room.Therefore that formula cannot be applied.

By: Record, Mix & Master

Record, Mix & Master — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:10:06 +0000

Hi DJCHRISTOS,Assuming 2.85m is the width of your room, according to this calculation your speakers should be placed at 78.6cm from the left and right side walls and 127cm from the speaker wall.The distance from speaker A to speaker B should be equal to the distance from where you sit to each speaker. Please bear in mind that this is a guide and additional adjustments may be necessary. It is quite common for speakers to be placed at around 38% from the speaker wall so 40% is not unusual.Also, make sure that the centre of the woofer on each speaker is not positioned halfway between the ceiling and the floor as strong modes exist there. Again, 38% up from the floor is a good starting point.CheersSimonRecord, Mix and MasterFree Pro-Audio Tutorials http://www.recordmixandmaster.comwww.recordmixandmaster.com /> http://www.twitter.com/recmixmaswww.twitter.com/recmixmas /> http://www.facebook.com/recmixmaswww.facebook.com/recmixmas /> http://www.youtube.com/recmixmas

By: @DJCHRISTOS

@DJCHRISTOS — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:04:20 +0000

Hi Simon, my room is 4.09m x 2.85m. My listening position should be @ 1.63m (40% of room length).
Using the above formula the monitors go @ 1.27m from the speaker wall, meaning my ears should be roughly around 0.36m from the monitors??? Am I calculating something wrong here?

By: Simon Duggal

Simon Duggal — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:40:24 +0000

Hi Jim, this is an industry standard formula that is widely used for positioning speakers. I'm no scientist so I don't know how the formula was derived. I have used this formula to set up my speakers in various studios and can tell you that this approach ensures that your speakers avoid room modes... (points in the room where the direct sound from the speakers and the reflected sound from the surface meet). There's an interesting article on the subject here too: Setting Up Speakers In A Rectangular Room. Thanks for your question. Simon

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:35:36 +0000

Where did you come up with this formula