How we can make your system sound better. Part 5: Speaker Placement

Better Sound through Speaker Placement

Optimize Your Sound works on physical placement to optimize your listening position.

If you don't consider yourself an audiophile there's a good chance you placed your speakers based on where they'd look best—and stick out the least—rather than where they sounded ideal. Follow some basic speaker placement rules to optimize your setup.


Pursuing the perfect speaker setup is a nearly endless chase but you can easily tweak your current setup to improve your system's sound without endless test sessions and absurd cable upgrades. At Wired's how-to wiki they've put together a checklist for making sure your setup doesn't fail some basic speaker placement principles.