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Hi Everybody,

I'd very much like to know how you set up your stereo phantoms.

Do you use stands? If so what height are these stands? Are they toed-in to your listening spot or do you prefer no toe-in at all. It is very interesting for me to find out which setup you consider to be the best for stereo.

I myselft use the branch stands and the speakers are toed-in in a way that the tweeter points directly to my ears. This setup gives me the best soundstage.

cheers
Chill
(23-Nov-2015, 13:43)Chillin Wrote: [ -> ]Hi Everybody,

I'd very much like to know how you set up your stereo phantoms.

Do you use stands? If so what height are these stands? Are they toed-in to your listening spot or do you prefer no toe-in at all. It is very interesting for me to find out which setup you consider to be the best for stereo.

I myselft use the branch stands and the speakers are toed-in in a way that the tweeter points directly to my ears. This setup gives me the best soundstage.

cheers
Chill
Mine are toed in to opposite corners of the listening stage. This gives the best allround sound for everyone in the listening area, but the sound is alomst non-existing everywhere else in the room. Edit: Mine are on a media center rack that stands 64 cm of the ground. They are approx 3 m apart.
I have mine up quite high, about 2.2m above the ground, toed in about 30 degrees, not angled down. Imaging is great from the back of the room (about 5m) right up to nearly between them. Sound quality changes everywhere due to various nodes and resonances, but it's mostly very good and only a couple of special dud spots. I had them at more normal height: about 1m from ground but I like this better. Maybe because I am on my feet most of the time


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I expected the Phantoms to have very wide and even dispersion given how small the mid range and tweeters are along with the curved shape. However, I found them more beamy (not that they are super beamy) than other drivers their size it seems. They only look small but the midrange driver is more like the drivers on 6" drivers. And so it is just about as beamy. This mean, in my opinion, they need some toe in. Degrees of toe in depending of your room, how far your speaker is from back and side wall, how far you are from the speakers etc...
Having tried different positions, this is what suits me best.
Toe both Phantoms in a little - about 30 degrees. So that, when sitting in listening position, just a small part of the inside chrome plate of both Phantoms are just visible.

My room is about 4m/13ft wide and 9m/29ft long. Phantoms are about 60cm/2ft from rear wall and 60cm/2ft from both side walls. I have them spaced apart for about 2m75 / 9ft.
Normally, I sit about 3m/10ft from Phantoms, more or less in the middle.