Lyngdorf Audio DP-1 - Manual (Page 2)

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Placement
As a starting point, we suggest you initially position the DP-1’s 3 feet from the back wall and 4 feet from
the side wall.
Angling the speakers 10 degrees to the back wall will refl ect the generated sound off your back and side
walls, which will give you the acoustic impression of a much larger room.
Also remember that a dipole speaker emits virtually no sound from the side. You can take advantage of
this trait to cancel refl ections from the side wall by varying the toe-in angle.
General tips for setting up speakers
Stereo triangle
You can use the stereo triangle as a good rule of thumb when placing your speakers. This means the
distance between the speakers should be the same as the distance from your listening position to both
speakers; in other words an equilateral triangle.
Damping
If your room…
a) doesn’t allow you to get the speakers the required distance from the
back and side walls or…
b) has highly refl ective surfaces (i.e. glass windows or bare plastered walls)
or…
c) still doesn’t sound quite right
…we strongly recommend that you ‘damp’ your room’s critical surfaces. This can be done simply by
adding curtains, furniture, bookshelves and so on. A damped surface is almost always preferable to a
hard refl ective surface. Be carefull not to over-dampen your room, this will result in a very ‘dead’ and less
dynamic enviroment.
Depending on the placement of the speakers, room size, sound refl ecting surfaces, furniture, etc, it is
entirely up to you how you fi ne-adjust the placement, angling and damping. Remember to take your time
and use your ears.