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The location of your listening position is as important as the careful setup of your X-1/
GrandSLAMM speakers in your room. 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 rectangu-
lar room of 12ʼ x 18ʼ, if the speaker tweeters are going to be 9ʼ apart, you should be sitting 9ʼ11ʼʼ
to 11ʼ3ʼʼ from the speaker. This would be about 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 will not yield
the finest sound. Carefully consider your listening position. Our experience has shown that any listening
position which places your head closer than 14” to a room boundary will diminish the sonic results of your
listening.
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Decide where you want your favorite listening position to be. Please remember that your X-1/
GrandSLAMM will fill almost any room with the most beautiful sound available. However, for the phase
delay correction advantage, we want to ensure that you get all the benefits that are built into this design. For
this purpose we have designed the following questions:
What is the main purpose of your X-1/GrandSLAMM? Is it for a listening room dedicated to
2-channel audio? If yes, you should choose your position carefully to yield the finest sound. Wilson Au-
dio uses a formula: The distance between the 2 woofers of each channel times 1.2 equals the distance you
should sit from each loudspeaker.
For instance, if you measure the distance between the center of the left channel woofer to the cor-
responding right channel woofer and it is equal to 10 feet, multiply it by 1.2. This means that you should sit
12 feet from each X-1/GrandSLAMM.
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