okay so this is the martinlogan master
series placement setup guide video
one thing to think about when you're setting up your speakers is the actual
room surfaces and so you'll notice i'm in a room that
looks outside here that has glass but i put electronic
venetian blinds in front of them and the room sounds much better when the blinds
are closed i also added some curtains on either
side panels coming down because they actually
soften the sound and if you went back and looked at the back of the room i've
actually got bookshelves behind my main seating
position to soften things up so every time you can think about that and
actually these two chairs here they serve two purposes one is if i have a
meeting in this room but the second is they actually help
with reflections and softening up sound in the room
what i first want to show you we're sitting in my home office
is how you think about placing the speakers
so we've got a room here that's a little over 20 feet deep about 15 feet wide and
almost 10 feet high and the way to do this is to start with
your speakers you want to move the back of the speaker
so you go to the very back of the woofer here and you want to start with it
the size of the woofer off of the wall so in this case these are 13a's
they should be 10 inches at least off the wall so start with them that way
if you went to the 15's you're 12 inches off if you had the 11's
you would be eight inches off anyways you start with them there
and place them out about where you think they should go
then what you're going to do is you'll start playing music and pulling them
forward and you want to work until the bass gets
to a level that you say okay i've heard this track a thousand
times that sounds about the right amount of bass
okay when you get there you're going to tilt the speakers inward
and there's a little trick i'm going to show you how to do it you get into your
core listening position here and you're going to take a flashlight
and point the flashlight at the speaker and if you move it across the speaker
you'll see that the speakers need to be pointed in
such that it reflects back to you in your core listening
position on one third inside of the panel you
don't want it at the center of the panel and you don't
want the outside so basically they're toed in just a little bit
so obviously it's helpful if you have someone with you who is
moving them in a little bit so you start getting them to the right distance in
the second thing you're going to do whenever you place them initially you
want to make sure they're at least two to two and a half feet off the wall
honestly my own belief is you need at least two feet off the side walls
so you start at two and a half feet let's say off the sidewalls
or if they can be more that's fine and what you want to do is get a sense of
is the image a full size of a band when you're listening to your music
and let's say that the image is too small you'll start to move your way
out wider or if you feel like the image is really huge but you're not having
really tight imaging in the middle you'll start to move them back in so now
we've started to get the distance from the wall
and we started to go back and forth so we're going to play with that until it
locks in and then we're going to set them like
that then what you're going to do have someone help you because these are
generally pretty heavy speakers you're going to turn the speaker over on its
side like this when you do you'll reach down and put
unscrew the bottoms and put in the spikes
now part of what you're trying to figure out with the spikes you have the ability
to turn the spikes such that the back
pushes up so the speaker comes forward more
or backwards more i will tell you in our own setups
i tend to find that particularly if you have a low seat like the one you see
here i like to have it arced a little bit
more up so the ones you see right now i've got the back spikes higher pushing
it up a little bit more than you would think and to me
that creates a tighter sound stage now if you get further and further back or
maybe you've got a higher chair right here
you may find it opens up the sound stage to have them point a little bit more
back okay so that's, that's the first part
that you're going to do as you're doing it you need to note a
couple things one if you measure the distance from the
center of this speaker to the center of the other speaker
your listening chair should be at least that distance from each speaker so in
other words an equilateral triangle in this
particular room i've got this seat just a little bit
farther away than the distance from those speakers to
each other now i've got a unique situation in that
i'm actually trying to create two seats in this room i have my main listening
position but i also have, i don't get to sit and
listen all the time i'm usually working so if i'm working at my desk
i've actually got my desk chair such that it's just
under two times the distance back so you're trying to find
in between one X the distance here and two X and somewhere in between and in
fact for most people they find it you know
about midway through for me i've got a chair at each location one
for working and one what i'm actually listening
so now what i want to do i want to show you you've got everything set up
your speakers are in the right place you're feeling pretty good about it and
now what we want to do is actually run the arc software
so what you do is you're going to take a rj45 cable
plug it in you'll see sitting right in the back of each speaker is a jack
you'll plug it into the first speaker and then you'll go over and plug it into
the second speaker that connects the two speakers and now
all we've got to do is plug our computer usb cable
into this arc slot here into one of the speakers and it will actually calibrate
both speakers at the exact same time
once you've done that the room is generally calibrated and now you can
play with the toggle switch on the back that allows you to turn mid bass up a
little bit leave mid bass the same or turn it down
a little bit and then there's actually a bass crossover that you can play with
to just get to your own personal tastes so hopefully this was helpful for you
if you've got questions on this setup lots of people at audio advice
have done these setups many many times with martinlogan speakers
so feel free to go over to audioadvice.com you can chat with us
there email us give us a call or if you happen
to live in north carolina come by our raleigh
or charlotte showrooms and we can actually show you how it's done in the
showroom we'll be happy to help you out thanks
for watching