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Originally Posted by crwilli
Like Potato Chips and also fun!
They encourage ongoing experimentation as they often impact your sound depending on where you put them.
I have settled on three across the front (left behind speaker, middle, right behind speaker) and two behind me as my room setup and the Strads design minimizes sidewall reflections.
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Great photo. And I think I can relate to the upper-wall placement of your Apertures.
In my setup with just the lower Aperture in place at the front-center position, 39 inches of reflective bare wall separate the ceiling from the top of that lone Aperture. What I realized after comparative listening is that adding the second one to fill 22 inches of that vertical gap eliminates, among other things, a trace of output-muddying midrange "shout" that's most noticeable in vocals--e.g., Frederica von Stade singing the original deliciously unsanitized lyrics of Rodgers and Hart's "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered". As a consequence, imaging is more fleshed out and layered with a concomitant increase in the resolution of instrumental and vocal output.
Now if I could only find another place to put those two jewelry cabinets that inhabit the top of the dresser that wouldn't get me into "you're getting rutabagas for dinner" trouble. (Even Saint Mrs. has her limits.)