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In Reply to: RE: Positioning, yes... posted by immatthewj on December 6, 2020 at 12:32:32:
When audiophiles ask me about speakers, I always turn around, and ask what their listening habits are. My whole life, no one (including myself) in my household ever did the solo audiophile thing. We always had multiple people, and we'd sit, stand, and dance from anywhere in the room. Therefore, all of those speakers designed for Stereotypical Audiophiles will not work for us.
At the March 1993 Stereophile Show, May Audio, which imported Totem, could not find the props, which made speaker stands look like Greco Roman columns. While scrambling to find speaker stands, the staff temporarily had the Totem Model 1 on a table. The speakers were no more than 3' apart. Yet, they had the good taste, to play The Police. Despite the less-than-ideal setup, the Model 1 sounded credible.
When they did source speaker stands, and place the Model 1 into the room, that little minimonitor rocked! Though a bit lightweight, Stewart Copeland's kickdrum "appeared" in the middle of the room! And this was one of the very few rooms, which got the snap of his snare drum right.
At subsequent audio shows, Totem would often use a single-column audio rack, and have the speakers flanking it. Yup, that means the speakers were a mere 3' apart.
ACS understood that if your room were small, the speakers would most likely be close together. In addition, listeners would probably be relatively close to the plane of the speakers. But that meant you needed little or even no toe-in. At my parents' place, we usually were able to provide 60"-66" of space between the two loudspeakers. In fact, that's (66") what I have in my own living room, with the Totem Element Fire.
ACS used to work at Victoria's Secret. Because of that, we identified a major cause or source of audiophilia nervosa : aesthetics. She would say, "If you're going to spend this much, it better look good!" Indeed, that was why, when we got the Totem M1S, we got it in the gorgeous maple, which looked infinitely better than the black, cherry, and mahogany.
ACS used to state that Sonus Faber's combination of gray leatherette and real walnut was "like my dog threw up."
But she liked the Stand Fixed. The matte black steel plus real walnut wood reminded ACS of some of the more industrial portions and train tracks of Berkeley, near Fourth Street.
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