was struggling with placement because when setting up stereo speakers, if they are high quality you need to be right in the middle to get them to image, which usually means vocals seem to come from that empty space while instruments are anchored or pan left to right etc. you can usually compensate with normal speakers by toeing in one a bit for awkward seating positions So the challenge is how do you create that with a speaker that fires 360 degrees. I finally figured it out today, pretty simple really, you simply bring the farthest speaker forward a little, as little as 6 inches changes where the sweet spot is further out in to the room and at a glance the speakers still look fairly equidistant....this is very important because the closest HomePod to you can somewhat overwhelm the other so adjusting the sweet spot really makes them shine
[doublepost=1546116277][/doublepost]Just wanted to clarify something for people who are just thinking about going stereo, my experience testing these is they have a fairly large sweet spot , so really you will be ok anywhere between the speakers, its when your seating position in out of that cone that moving one forward a little moves the sweet spot to envelope you, hope that makes sense, in my room the fireplace is where the normal seating position should be so that’s why I had to do this
[doublepost=1546116277][/doublepost]Just wanted to clarify something for people who are just thinking about going stereo, my experience testing these is they have a fairly large sweet spot , so really you will be ok anywhere between the speakers, its when your seating position in out of that cone that moving one forward a little moves the sweet spot to envelope you, hope that makes sense, in my room the fireplace is where the normal seating position should be so that’s why I had to do this
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