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An hour. I have a living room, not a listening room, and some things are sort of predetermined by room layout. That said, my system isn't very picky.

Billions of femtoseconds! Seriously, I made a serious effort, got acceptable results, and after that, just enjoyed the music. I try not to be too aXXlly retentive.

Sixteen minutes. But I know I am not done.

Two days, using scale drawings so the speakers wouldn't get blocked by any furniture. The bad news is that they're only four feet apart.

Not nearly as much time as I should have, but my placement options are limited.

Six to seven hours.

My new Quads 2905 sounded "perfect" since the first position I tried. Before, with Martin Logans, it tooked me months of trial and error.

Two months, since brand new speakers keep changing their voices.

Several hours—including sand loading the stands and then positioning them 1/3 of the way into the room, with the listening chair at 2/3 position.

A few minutes (just for moving the boxes, of course); ideal position was determined after many hours of listening, which happened for the song listening pleasure not for fine tuning. I need to make RT60 measurements with my spectrum analyser (a quite expensive measurement equipment) to place loudspeakers more precisely for a RT60 value of around 0.35-0.40 seconds for my listening position. I need a long holiday (going a little bit nuts as a result of boredom), a bottle of single malt (for making the things easier) and an empty home (for my family not to think that I am going nuts) for doing that. Surely a lot of measurements and a lot of time.

Two weeks for my Magico V3s. I believe that 45% of your sound quality is room acoustics and that's why after two weeks, I have +0.5/-0.025dB from 21Hz to 36.4kHz from just my V3s and serious amounts of bass traps and absorption.

Well, I bought my speakers almost 10 years ago and I'm still not finished with moving them around a bit.

Seven minutes.

I was playing with placing my speakers for about a month or two.

Only retail audio has a limited time frame. At my house, things are free to change and grow.

I haven't "placed" them, I'm building a dedicated room around them similar to this one but a bit smaller & with diffusion panels on the side walls and ceiling.

Six months, small things sometime make big differences.

I put them where their predecessors sat, then didn't try anything for a month or so. Once they were broken in, and I was familiar with their sound, I started fiddling about.

Several hours. then i bought the Stereophile disc (can't recall which one) and spent about 20 minutes to zero them in.

I ran the math contained in the excellent manual for my Vandersteen 2CEs. Total time about three days, but wow what a difference!

Years!

One hour.

Twenty-five hours plus, so far, and still tweaking, as I add acoustic treatments. I have ML Summits.

Twenty hours of mostly frustration, confusion, and hesitation.

30 minutes (that) was all I needed!

I spend about 30 minutes maximum, I know where I want them to be, and just make sure they're away from side walls, out enough from the back wall for the bass to be right, and I'm done. Oh yeah, equal distance from my seat, too.

Actually moving the speakers? Cumulatively probably about a couple hours for every new speaker over its lifetime. But when you factor in thinking obsessively about placement issues every time I sit down to listen to music and trying to figure out the next spot to move the speakers to ... forever.

In the beginning, I spent so much time placing my speakers. When I found the placement I liked I decided to see if there was any correlation to the size of the room and wouldn't you know, they were exactly at the 5th division of the room dimensions. I've used this placement in two rooms so far and have been very happy with the results.

Ten hours and still trying to get the optimum position. Manufacturers should supply this info in their manuals!

Fifteen hours.