The Listening Triangle — Home Studio Print

Where to put two speakers and one head, drawn to scale as a plan of a room about four metres by three. Get this right and modest monitors tell you the truth. Get it wrong and expensive ones lie to you.

Speakers and ears sit at the three corners of an equilateral triangle, toed in, tweeters at ear height. The listening position is at thirty-eight percent of the room depth, close to where the worst of the low-frequency peaks and dips cancel each other out. Corner bass traps and first-reflection panels are marked where they belong.

Five rules down the side, a metre scale along the bottom. Equally at home in a bedroom studio or a professional room, and the fastest way to settle an argument about where the desk goes.

How it is made

Unframed prints are made in the UK on 170gsm silk poster stock, rolled in tissue and sent in a rigid tube.

Framed editions are a step up: the same design printed on 200gsm enhanced matte fine art paper, set in a classic moulding behind a perspex glaze — lighter than glass, safer in a room where people play, and it survives the post. No mount, so the image runs full bleed to the frame. Arrives ready to hang.

Sizes

A4 is 21 × 29.7 cm, A3 is 29.7 × 42 cm, A2 is 42 × 59.4 cm. A2 is the one most people mean by "a proper poster" — if it is going above a desk or a record player, that is the size to pick. Our print sizes guide has the full measurements and hanging heights.

Made to order

Every print is made when you order it, so allow 3–5 working days before it ships. Nothing sits in a warehouse fading.