Positioning of system: To the Right or to the Left?
Posted by: Tony2011 on 27 August 2012
Hummmmm. As recommended by most Naimees and countless forums, systems should never be placed between speakers. Question is: physical conditions allowing, do you place them to either left or right side and does it show a, let's say, "political" inclination?
KR
Tony
Hummmmm. As recommended by most Naimees and countless forums, systems should never be placed between speakers. Question is: physical conditions allowing, do you place them to either left or right side and does it show a, let's say, "political" preference?
KR
Tony
Well it depends on the following:
!) What the other half thinks
2) Whether you have left-handed NACA5 or right-handed
and then more seriously
3) Where the space is
4) Where your mains sockets are
Other than that can't think of anything
I chose the right-hand side (facing the speakers).
I have two Fraim racks, brains to the left and brawn to the right, in order to gain maximum separation from the PS's torroidal transformers. My NAP 300 is at the bottom of my brains rack. My thinking was that by placing the racks on the right side of my room, my NACA5 cables have a shorter, easier run from the NAP 300 to my speakers. Also, they would not have run past my brawn rack, thus making wire dressing a little bit easier.
Admittedly not a big deal, but since I was running a new electrical circuit, and since either side of my room could have worked, I did spend a little time thinking about this...and this one minor advantage was all I could come up with.
Hook
Oh, this is fun:
Where you can manually reach the volume knob from listening position
Where the set is less vulnerable, and can be protected easily (dogs, kids, ..)
Where you can read the display easily (ie display blinding sunlight)
Where the direct sunlight doesn't tarnish the components
Where the set is less visable from a burglar point of view
Where the set can be operated from a other room (IR remote signal), for multi room sound ;-)
Where cable dressing can be easiest done
Where the most free space for operating the set exists: bending, sqattig
Where the floor is at its strongest
Where the old format music carriers can be placed closely
Where the nicest system pics can be made
Where future frame expansion is possible
To be on the save side, I would just put it in the middle ;-)
Cheers, Fred