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Please, please, please move your speakers away from the wall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UA-VctzuFo

To anyone else enjoying this video, this man, Steve Guttenberg, is a high-profile audio tech reviewer, and his reviews, "complete system recommendations" and musings on hi-fi are excellent. For many people, reviewers of hi-fi gear is the closest they can get to having an idea of what they're buying now that brick-and-mortar stores with listening rooms are harder to reach.

I'd also recommend The British Audiophile's take on speaker placement and distancing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHOYXjVJKKY

This is a good start if you want to get into (or avoid) Guttenberg's stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfMg5P0_vJk

Listen to him wax sarcastically about blind tests. Does he not get it? Or does he make his living from not getting it?

I don't like everything he says, and I'm sometimes disappointed to see him refer to people who think Ethernet cables make no difference above $20 as "cable deniers" (though analogue cables can make a difference, especially interconnects) - but I don't think he's being dishonest, I think he's misinformed, and there's more than his "whatever works for you" takes on engineering matters. At least in my experience.

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