Depends on the speaker, listening room, listening position and how and what the purpose of the speakers is (monitoring, mixing, hifi listening).
listening distance, tonal balance, SPL ?
I mostly agree with only a couple caveatsI am not trying to argue here, but I thought it’s evident that neutral sound depends on geometry and the equilateral triangle and speakers on axis were the first advice to any monitorer, mixer and hifi listener. As you deviate from this first advice, you colour the sound at the listening position. Wouldn’t you agree?
The «recreational listener» whose preferences we don’t know, may have different needs, of course.
If you have neutral speakers (flat on axis response), then yes. It may even be better in some cases to let the on-axis lines cross before the listener position (e.g. speaker turned 45 degree instead of 30). According to Grimm Audio (they demoed the LS1 in Munich Highend 2019 just so) this reduces the reflections on the side walls. Another advantage is that the sweet spot can get bigger: if you move your head from the middle position to the right you are moving your head closer to on-axis of the left speaker and away from on-axis of the right speaker. This counter acts the loss of amplitude of the left speaker and the gain of amplitude of the right speaker due to the change in distance.On-axis always produce the flattest frequency response. Does it means we should always go for large toe-in?
I love the idea. Then I could set preferred positioning for each recording and enter it as meta data to my media player. Then each time a new selection comes on the speakers automatically return to the chosen sweet spot.All speakers should have wheels and adjustable height, motorized of course, GPS controlled per iPhone app. So every track could have GPS and height coordonates, for every person on earth.
I love the idea. Then I could set preferred positioning for each recording and enter it as meta data to my media player. Then each time a new selection comes on the speakers automatically return to the chosen sweet spot.
How about toilet paper, won't then dirty my hands.Professor Butts is already on the case.
@kaka89 which speakers are you using, and what’s the room like? As @solderdude said, it all depends.
I thought the rule of toe-in should apply to all speakers tho, as on-axis almost always produce the best response, also eliminate room reflection. In what situation no toe-in would work better than toe-in?
* this is an M30.2 measurement from