Wilson Audio WATT Series 7 - Manual (Page 49)

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The location of your listening position is as important as the careful setup placement
of your WATT/Puppy System 7 speakers in your room. The listening position should ideally
be no more than 1.1 to 1.25 times the distance between the tweeters on each speaker. There-
fore, in a long rectangular room of 12’ x 18’, if the speaker tweeters are going to be 9’ apart,
you should be sitting 9’11’’ to 11’3’’ from the speaker. This would be about halfway down
the long axis of the room. Experiment carefully for best low frequency response.
Some people place the speakers on one end and sit at the other end of the room.
Needless to say, this will not yield the finest sound. Carefully consider your listening position
for optimal performance. Our experience has shown that any listening position which places
your head closer than 14” to a room boundary will diminish the sonic results of your listen-
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Decide where you want your favorite listening position to be. Please remember that
your WATT/Puppys can fill almost any room with the most beautiful sound. However, for
the time aligning advantage, we want to ensure that you get all the benefits possible with the
gruop delay adjustment features that are built into this design. For this purpose we ask you to
consider the following questions:
What is the main purpose of your WATT/Puppys? Is it for a listening room dedicated
to 2-channel audio? If yes, you should choose your position carefully to yield the finest
sound. Wilson Audio uses a formula: The distance between the tweeters of the two channel
times 1.2 equals the distance you should sit from each loudspeaker.
For instance, if you measure the distance between the center of the left channel
tweeter to the corresponding right channel tweeter and it is equal to 10 feet, multiply it by
1.2. This means that you should sit approximately12 feet from each WATT/Puppy channel.
Are your WATT/Puppys dedicated for a home theater?
Are you going to sit on a couch, or will there be multiple rows of chairs?
If it is a couch, you should center the loudspeakers on the center position of the
couch.
Multiple rows of chairs - In this case you should calculate the 1.2 times equation on
your second row of seating. Now more people will enjoy the power of your WATT/Puppys.
Do you still want to listen to 2 channel music at its highest quality? In this way you
can enjoy optimized sound from that second seat.
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