QUAD 63s edge to side walls
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Location: Canberra - in the ACT - SE Australia Joined: January 30, 2002 |
The last time I had 63s here at home I had to mount them angled in but with there outer edges on the side walls. Centres are about 9ft apart and us 2 about 8 feet away. Near-field listening? And, no image width otherwise. It's an L-shaped room the toe of which is a small dining area. The long diagonal is > 35 feet. So, I'll be doing the same with the QUADs I now own. They'll be sitting on large DIY, push-pull, sealed subs as wide as the QUADs and about 19" / 45cm high. The front face of the sealed subs being a decent extension to the baffle area of the QUADs. There will be a DIY ported sub on its side and against the rear of each sealed sub. Question? Is this edge to the wall and angled in a really, really bad thing to do? Some people seem to think it is. But, that's not my experience from the last time. UK's HFN&RR had an article about this kind of thing a long time ago. Adding a large floor-to-ceiling baffle with a cut out - on the wall side - for the 63. Also angled in to face the listener. The wall behind each QUAD is already damped with 54" high by 42" wide diff-sorbtion panels. El-cheapo* panels except for the printed fabric covers and stretcher timber frames. * Long-fibre deep-pile wool-carpet remnants from carpet shops, behind the fabric covers, carpet is tacked to peg-board using carpet tacks along the top, two rows. Between the pegboard and walls is fabric-wrapped BAF. ? Old dry-cleaned pillows, compressed with concrete pavers and boards to ~ 2", cut to cover the peg board and stitched to the pegboard. The gap to the wall is ~ 2.5". Door-stoppers for stand-offs. One day I - might - put some stiff 2" deep Corning fibreglass panels in, covered with fine mesh cloth, to replace the BAF.
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