Anyone good with trigonometry?

bitslice said:
Incidentally, that sounds like an awful speaker configuration, try putting them half a metre from any wall and just point them 10deg towards you.
Fiddle repeatedly until you can't really sense the speakers location.
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Neumann, the prestigious audio company who built the £1000+ reference monitors I just bought, disagree with you ;)
 
banja said:
Neumann, the prestigious audio company who built the £1000+ reference monitors I just bought, disagree with you ;)
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Hah, you don't get to be smug just because you spent £400 more on speakers than I did, there are plenty of people on here that have Hi-Fi which would blow both our choices into the weeds.

All speakers are different and need different positioning, FWIW I've never heard of a 30deg toe in on any speaker :confused: hence my comment.

If you are sitting 1.5m from your speakers then I wouldn't worry too much about perfection, reflections from such a small room are going to muddy the effect anyway.
Mine sounded like tambourines in a 4x5m room, in a bigger room they were lovely.
 
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bitslice said:
Hah, you don't get to be smug just because you spent £400 more on speakers than I did, there are plenty of people on here that have Hi-Fi which would blow both our choices into the weeds.

All speakers are different and need different positioning, FWIW I've never heard of a 30deg toe in on any speaker :confused: hence my comment.

If you are sitting 1.5m from your speakers then I wouldn't worry too much about perfection, reflections from such a small room are going to muddy the effect anyway.
Mine sounded like tambourines in a 4x5m room, in a bigger room they were lovely.
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Thanks for your input, I didn't mean to be sound snotty. I wasn't being smug, just that your advice isn't nowhere near precise enough to satisfy my OCD tendencies. Apart from the fact the details for placement from Neumann suggest a 30 degree placement, so that's where I'll start.

I am a sound engineer as a profession (mostly live work), and tbh ideally I'd wanted to spend £4k more than I did, but that's just a dream, maybe in the future - you can spend unlimited amounts on this hobby / job :)
 
There are threads in this forum about watches people buy that cost five times what I've spent, and all they do is tell the time :)
 
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Dunks said:
CAD is the best (read: lazyest :p) way to work out tricky trig problems :o
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im not letting hundreds of years of human acheivement go to waste by doing things the hard way :p

sane reason I drive everywhere, its to honour the acheivements that led to the existance of the car rather than because im lazy.

at least thats my story and im sticking to it!
 
We had five years of flipping through books of log tables (calculators were banned)
Well done, you wasted the time and interest of an entire generation, idiots.
 
because we only know one of the lengths, therefore Pythagoras wouldn't work
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We know one of the lengths and one of the angles. Surely that tells us Everything that we need to know?

Having said that (Unless absolute precision is essential) I would simply solve the problem using a piece of string (And a bit of trial and error) to create an equilateral triangle centred on my listening position (IYSWIM)
 
Orionaut said:
We know one of the lengths and one of the angles. Surely that tells us Everything that we need to know?
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yes, you could equally work out given just 2 sides [using pythagoras's theorem]

thats why we have to use good ol' soh cah toa which will tell us one of the missing sides [using 1 side and 1 angle]

provided you have at least 1 side plus either a side or an angle, you can work out every detail of a right angled triangle.
 
kaiowas said:
What the hell are they teaching in schools these days?

It was all about "the orange alligator sat on his cornflakes and hiccupped" in my day.
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This got me remembering old acronyms.

Here (Here) Little Begger-Boys Catch Newts Or Fish!

Never Never May Arabian Scientists Pay Social Calls!

Mind, after having done a little web search this has to be the top dog! :eek: :D (Guardianistas, Walk away now! ;) )

Black *******s Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly

But that is the whole point of acronyms, the more absurd/ridiculous/offensive the better, THATS why you remember them!

(Unfortunately, being R/G Colour blind none of this ever helped me! I just had to use an Avo all the time! :( )
 
Orionaut said:
We know one of the lengths and one of the angles. Surely that tells us Everything that we need to know?

Having said that (Unless absolute precision is essential) I would simply solve the problem using a piece of string (And a bit of trial and error) to create an equilateral triangle centred on my listening position (IYSWIM)
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With each speaker being at 30 degrees that wouldn't be equilateral. Isosceles?

Initial precision is preferable. The manual states to be precise to within 1cm.
 
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