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In Reply to: RE: Excellent points - I'll try to address them... posted by cawson@onetel.com on October 26, 2016 at 14:59:41:
Thanks for your kind reply!
"The Avantgardes sounded great in my London living room (5 sided with big bay, 350 sq ft, 10 ft ceilings and nice soft Victorian plaster walls) but they're sadly not so happy in my new pad.
"Suggestions, suggestions welcome!"
My impression is that Avantgardes absolutely nail the first-arrival sound, and that their strong directional control makes them much more free from early reflections than most speakers (including my own). Their horn flares are not constant directivity, which implies that their reverberant fields are going to have a somewhat different spectral balance than the first-arrival sound, but they are still considerably better than most speakers in this respect.
IF the problem in the new room is that your Avantgardes don't have the timbral richness, particularly in the midrange, that they had in your London room, that could be related to the relatively weak reverberant field we get with highly directional speakers, combined with the long reflection path lengths (which means that the reverberant energy will be attenuated by distance moreso than normal). A well-energized reverberant field promotes timbral richness. As an extreme example of the effects on timbre of the reverberant field in a small room (the opposite end of the spectrum from your new room), imagine singing in the shower.
It is also possible that you are getting considerably less boundary reinforcement in the bottom few octaves in that large room, which can make the speakers sound "thin", and if this thinness extends into the lower midrange, it may be beyond correction via the controls for your powered woofers.
If either of these guesses are in the ballpark, I might have an idea or two. You can e-mail me at audiokinesis at yahoo dot com.
Duke
Me being a dealer makes you leery?? It gets worse... I'm a manufacturer too.
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