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In Reply to: RE: 3.7i Break-in posted by Swamis Cat on June 21, 2014 at 08:56:26
First let me say my room is 17x17 'box shaped' so it's a challenge to begin with.
I recently did a slight toe-in (roughly 5°) on my panels with them positioned about 29" from the left side wall, and 36" from the right side wall. There's a wide space in-between (about 8' apart) and about 9' out from the front wall. I sit about 7 1/2' in front.The imaging can be down right spooky at times; I had a friend over visiting from out of town recently and after seeing my system he asked "what are those?"....I replied: "well sit right here", and placed him dead center on the couch. Cued up was Billie Holliday's "God bless the child" performed by none other than Aretha Franklin herself (1962)...the song starts out with orchestra on the left, orchestra on the right, no real depth per say, mostly emitting from the panels themselves..(remember this is 1962 'stereo') but almost as if on cue, an aberration of Aretha seemingly appears dead center and begins to sing her version of this timeless classic as only Aretha can.
My friend simply stated 'holy shit'....
I'll take that as a thumbs up ;)
*note- I used the term 'aberration'; a word usually associated with ghost, spirits, etc.,. but I am well aware the Queen of soul is quite alive and doing well ;)
Edits: 06/22/14 06/23/14 06/23/14 06/23/14Follow Ups:
Perhap 'apparition' as opposed to aberration?
Too much is never enough
I need to update that my 3.7i's are breaking in and loosening up nicely. The soundstage and coherence is now comparable to my original pair and still improving by the hour. They no longer require toe in just to sound decent.
My current set up is almost exactly the center of the room (about ten foot from FW). The tweets are inside about 7.5 feet apart and 9.5 feet from my ears. Very minimal toe in.
Still experimenting...
Thanks for the update SC...Any guess on the hours logged on them so far???
Mine are located very similar location, and distances apart...7' tweeter to tweeter, tweets in...
I am somewhat relieved that things are improving as I "stated"...they should keep improving...
thanks again
Mark
They continue to cook in nicely. There is simply no way to overstate how dramatically these speakers improve over the first 175 hours. Everyone talks about the bass improving, but the biggest and most important shift to these ears is in coherence and image specificity and depth.
Rachmaninoff sounds amazing right now.
"Rachmaninoff sounds amazing right now."
There hasn't even been the slightest peep out of him since March 1943.
SC
IMHO, early on they give you a "peak" at their potential...as the hours pile up they reach a point where they start to exceed your expectations...this model of Maggie is just like all others...play me loud, feed me lots of good clean watts...and I will reward you with beautiful music... then the sad inevitable bleak truth starts to sink in...all of sudden you start to look at everything upstream and go HHHhhhhmmmmm....I am in a cable phase currently...my next major upgrade is DAC/Server...still haven't found what I am looking for...
Thank you for the update...great news...
take care
Mark
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