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A study was conducted in participants’ homes to ascertain how they would position one to eight compact wireless loudspeakers, with the goal of enhancing their existing system. The eleven participants described three key themes, creating an arrangement that: was spatially balanced and evenly distributed; maintained the room’s aesthetics; maintained the room’s functionality. In practice, the results showed that participants prioritised aesthetics and functionality, whilst balance was not usually achieved. It was concluded that a hierarchy of preferred positions in each space exists, as the same positions were reused whilst positioning differing numbers of loudspeakers and by different participants in each location. Consistencies were observed between the locations which can be used to estimate loudspeaker positions for a given living room layout.

This paper was written in collaboration with Craig Cieciura, Russell Mason, Philip Coleman (Surrey) and Jon Francombe (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Research & Development). It was originally presented at the 148th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and is also .

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