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In Reply to: RE: That's what I like to see posted by john65b on December 11, 2014 at 20:32:16
Care to share these pinions?Did you try pulling the speakers into the room as we suggested?
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Satie, I fear my opinions will not be received well, and I will be challenged on my competency to judge in the first place, so I should just keep them to myself....Oh Hell, from what I notice, it is when one indicates their disappointment with a particular piece of gear, the attacks come from all directions, but when one indicates they are happy with something, the stone-throwers somehow become more acceptive.... I can say my first pair of T-IVa (with brand new tweets), my modified Acoustat 2+2, and the stock MG20.1 pretty much round out my list! How's that?
I had a little accident with my scinnies before I really had any time to form an opinion....but after I repair / restore them I will post....
I have not yet been able to test them by bringing them in more into the room...which brings up another point.
I have a DEQ2496 that I was planning to use RTA to equalize / adjust my source (digitally via optical) to the aesthetically preferred placement of the speakers in my room, rather than the other way around of moving the speakers to suite modes of the room.
From my listening position, curve fit and balance the bass from 25hz to 500hz....all other frequencies are left as is...
Wishful thinking? Wasting my time?
I VOID WARRANTIES
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I understand that you have compunctions about stating a preference. But it is only someone like you who has lived with these who can provide the description of comparative strengths and weaknesses.There are other things besides the room modes that you are adjusting for in placement. First is the balance of reflected vs direct radiation, then there is the delay of reflections which is the distance to the front wall and somewhat affected by the distance of the tweeter to the side wall, which for a reason unknown to me appears to be ideal at just short of 3 ft. Then there is the issue of the oblique wave that has the lowest freq of all room modes and only gets excited when the speakers are setup near the center of the room near the sidewalls, the boundary effect from the sidewall loading of the bass and restriction of dipole cancellation has a big effect on the lower bass output - and how much audible bass is generated before the onset of distortion.
None of these things can be corrected or balanced by post facto EQ and time correction. If it isn't there to start the DEQ won't solve it.
You can tune out pesky modes and rebalance the speaker's tone and perhaps fix time alignment issues, but you can't fix everything and the better the starting point the better will be the final outcome.
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You'll have no clue how good the bass is until you get them out in the room. No need for a subwoofer on these.
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