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Recording acoustic guitar w/ Mics pointed down from ceiling

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I have treated my room a la fiberglass cloud on ceiling, and left the floor live. I like a bit of liveliness since I mostly record acoustic guitar in ORTF with some omni's. I took Ethan's advice from his faq on this and decided I'd try it with the cheaper rigid fiberglass bass traps on the ceiling with coverage at about 80%.

Near-field Monitors positioning.

OK, I've heard everyone say to place your Nearfield Monitors in an equilateral Triange to your listening position. I'm fine with that.

But I also remember concerns with Phase distortion when speakers are angled towards the center.

So, which do you prefer?

A) Nearfields pointing STRAIGHT OUT, parallel to each other...

or...