Vivid Audio GIYA Owner's Manual page 9

one technique for finding the best speaker position which exploits this reciprocity is to place
a speaker at the listening position and to move around the room to find places with an even
bottom end. then you can swap the speaker and listener and find the same result. this only
works for one speaker at a time and the results with both speakers in position may not be quite
as you expect so be prepared to try again. A good listening position will often be found at the
point where the loudspeakers are about 60˚ apart, fig.1. much closer together than this and
the apparent image width will suffer, much wider and you may find a 'hole' in the centre of the
image, particularly when seated off to one side.
there is no appreciable beam from any of the Vivid Audio loudspeaker drivers, that is to say;
the tonal balance is consistent across a wide angle as opposed to some designs where the
high frequencies in particular quickly fall in level as you move away from a point directly in front
of the speaker as if they were shining out from a flashlight. It is our experience that, because of
the very smooth wide sound field produced by our designs, angling the loudspeakers so that
they both face a position just ahead of the listeners can help to widen the useful area where
stereo sound may be enjoyed.
An absence of beaming is also a feature in the vertical plane, so being absolutely at the same
level as the loudspeakers is not important. In fact a perfectly enjoyable sound balance may be
found when lying on the floor more or less anywhere between the loudspeakers!
Because of the infinite number of combinations of wall materials dimensions and furnishings
in the room it is impossible to give more precise positioning advice than that above. In the end
we strongly recommend that you experiment, so if you are going to fit the spikes to the bases
then we suggest that you leave this until the positions have been determined.
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