Wilson Audio WATCH Center Channel Series 1 - Manual (Page 38)

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S e c t i o n 3 . 1 - C h o o s i n g a L i s t e n i n g P o s i t i o n
Decide where you want your listening position to be. Please remember that
your WATCH System can fill most rooms with beautiful sound. However, for the
PDC advantage, we want to ensure that you get all the benefits possible with the
propagation delay adjustment features that are built into this design. Listening
positions that are too close to a boundary will deteriorate the overall system per-
formance.
S p e a k e r P l a c e m e n t v s . L i s t e n i n g P o s i t i o n
The location of your listening position is as important as the careful setup
placement of your speakers in your room. The listening position ideally should be
no more than 1.1 to 1.25 times the distance between the left and right channel
tweeters on each speaker. Therefore, 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 lis-
tening position that places your head closer than 14” to a room boundary will
diminish the sonic results of your listening.
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