WILSON AUDIO Sasha DAW, Installation And Care Manual

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comes wider. If you were to extend the inner and outer boundaries of the Zone
for the sidewalls and the front wall (behind the speakers), they would intersect.
Speaker Placement Versus Listening Position
The location of your listening position is as important as the careful setup
of your Wilson Audio loudspeakers. The listening position should ideally be no
more than 1.1 to 1.25 times the distance between the tweeters on each speaker.
Therefore, in a long, rectangular room of 12’ x 18’, if the speaker tweeters are
going to be 9’ apart, you should be sitting 9’11’’ to 11’3’’ from the speaker. This
would be more than halfway down the long axis of the room.
Many people place the speakers on one end and sit at the other end of
the room. This approach will not yield the finest sound. Carefully consider your
listening position. Our experience has shown that any listening position that
places your head closer than 14” from a wall will diminish the sonic results of
your listening due to the deleterious effects of boundary interaction.
Speaker Orientation
Speaker placement and orientation are two of the most important consid-
erations in obtaining superior sound. The first thing you need to do is eliminate
the sidewalls as a sonic influence in your system. Speakers placed too close to
the sidewalls will suffer from a strong primary reflection. This can cause out-
of-phase cancellations, or comb filtering, which will cancel some frequencies
and change the tonal balance of the music. Adhering to the Wilson Audio Setup
Procedure outlined in the previous section is the best method with which to
position your loudspeakers.
A very important aspect of speaker placement is how far from the back
wall to place the speakers. The closer a loudspeaker is to the back wall, the
more pronounced the low bass energy and centering of the image will be.
However, this comes at a definite reduction in stage size and bloom as well as