Since I am waiting for my Barcelona chair to arrived in January, I decided to try a diagonal speaker placement. There are two reasons: comfort listening while resting on my bed and reduce some standing waves issue.
In short, it works! Had shifted the equipment rack sitting at the corner and trying to find the widest parallel plane for the speakers. With the diagonal position, i am able to get a very decent soundscape balance. Also, I swapped the custom speakers stands and use a more solid filled Atacama stands coupled with Finite Elemente Cerapucs base. The mids are back and the high less shrills. My reference disc is Penny Tai “Unexpected” where it is very obvious to me that something is wrong and need to be fixed.
And that my friend, is audio winning 🙂