I’ve had my ESS AMT6 professionals for 2.5 years now, they’re the size of small refrigerators so I mistakenly believed that toeing them in towards my listening position wouldn’t do much due to the size of my living room and shape of my house. They truly fill my house with beautiful music from anywhere I am (depending how loud I turn them up) Anyways about a week ago I toed them in to my main listening position and lo and behold the right channel opened right up and the soundstage is much more balanced, with depth and just a huge improvement overall. I’m simultaneously delighted and annoyed I didn’t do this years ago! So please, do yourself a favor if you have gigantic speakers and haven’t done so yet, toe them in and reap the rewards.
these are perplexing speakers, unfortunately I wasn’t able to find detailed specs with a cursory digging.
some assumptions i’m making here based on the design:
I would think that the stuffing might actually dampen the dipole effect as well, but seems to be an aftermarket addition. I would think these would sound best without the stuffing but moved quite a bit further out in the room (at least 3 feet from any walls) but it doesn’t look like a possibility with the current arrangement. I would also thing that making that making that adjustment would greatly reduce the effect of toe in due to the dipole effect and the level of dispersion.
since these seem heavily modified and not ideally placed to begin with i’m sure toe in helped a bit, i’m assuming firing straight forward you are beaming a lot of sound at the walls and that is causing a lot of early reflections.
I know they are large and probably very heavy, but i’m curious what would happen if you moved them further apart (switch places with the av units and chair) and toe them in even more. that outer left tweeter for sure is just beaming straight at a wall which i cant imagine does anything good for the sound
These were pro speakers. Not designed to be used in homes. They are purposely stuffed behind the amts to eliminate their dipole sound. Someone would buy these as traveling gig speakers. As they are built to fill a a small club, trying to get them to be “perfect” in a living room might be a waste of time. I think op just just rock out how they are. They should be able to take a good amount of power. My amt 1b are plenty powerful with just one amt. I can only imagine what 4 of them can do in a living room.