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6. Repeat this process for each speaker location individually. These are your Zones of Neutrality, one for
each channel.
Theoretically, the Zone of Neutrality for any room runs like a path, parallel to the walls all around the room.
Adjacent to very large windows and open doors, the outer edge of the Zone of Neutrality moves closer to the wall and
becomes 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 considerations 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
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