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In Reply to: RE: James Bongiorno's Maggie set up advice posted by M3 lover on January 25, 2015 at 09:52:50
I got an Ampzilla and Tympani demo back in the day, the sweet spot was about one foot wide and maybe 20 inches tall. If there is one thing that Maggies don't do, it's having a wide sweet spot.
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Well, you never had the opportunity to hear my system (and I've now moved house - so you won't be able to! :-)) ). My room was about 27'x 17' and I had a 3-seater couch about 13' in front of my IIIas. Anywhere you sat on that couch - you were in the sweet spot.
Regards,
Andy
I think the key is having a large room such as your previous one. If I had a 27x`17 room I'd probably barricade myself in it all day.
They say you can 'trick' a room into thinking it's larger by adding treatments. I'd imagine such a feat would be a fairly daunting task. Hell I'm not even good at "slap echoing" and having an almost square room doesn't help either.
I assume the speakers faced the long way. And the couch was not against a wall? thanks.
Correct - the back wall was about 9' behind me.
BTW - don't forhet my post title was in quotes - as I was quoting what the person who I was responding to, had said.
Regards,
Andy
Makes sense. IT seems as long as you are not sitting against the back wall you can get wonderful dispersion and image. I had to move recently and have to use a short wall 16' feet away-quite different now....but I am not unhappy. Good ;luck in your new digs..
Perhaps because all the spots were equally sour? ;-).
I own Carver's C-9 'hologram generator' (since its beginning) and to obtain its maximum effect you will find yourself sitting in the "sweet spot", AND I'm willing to assure you that it wouldn't/couldn't possibly be "anywhere" on your couch.
http://www.avsforum.com/forum/173-2-channel-audio/1174682-carver-c-9-sonic-hologram-generator.html
"Thanks for great explanation of the C-9 processor and how it works. I have had a chance to play with it over the last couple of months. I can convince myself that the virtual soundstage is expanded a bit. I have a nice large music room but the "sweet spot" is a sphere about 2' in diameter.
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Please accept my apologize for my mess-up, I very sincerely apologize.
Norman
- it was just a 'senior moment' on your part. ;-))
Regards,
Andy
I had both the original Ampzilla the the 'zilla II nethier of which could drive a lower than '8 ohm' Tympani. When they were reduced to '4 ohms' The 'zillas' was also reduced to being boat anchors (also having to add that the fan in the original 'zilla was way too loud and annoying to enjoy listening to music, but there were tricks and replacement fans to address that situation - I still have a 'zilla II and its fan noise problem was addressed by its manufacturer (no longer being JB himself.
IME (since the early 70s) it is not possible to avoid a sweet spot using any Tympani AND if you manage to do so you don't have them set-up optimally and then don't sound their best sitting anywhere. If one were to attempt measuring distances (feet/inches) between a Tympani and a seating position, just what part of the speaker is one to use, not even considering the fact that the T/M of the IVa (at least) is separable from their B panels. IMO like it or not, you will have to play 'MUSICAL CHAIRS' with your wife when listening to Maggies, and in this case the term takes on added meaning.
Fan noise was not an issue until the super quiet CD came out. Before then the record surface noise covered up that issue in large rooms. I have a nice 360 WPC amp sitting in the closet right now because the fan noise is a PIA.
Re-reading this thread (as well as beating the old and dead horse to death), I' m reminded as to how silly it is because at the time of the first Ampzilla's release CDs weren't even yet available.
Well we will disagree when it comes to listening to LPs and the fan noise generated by the *original* Ampzilla. Moreover, the "super quiet CD" needn't have been available, because listeners employed super quiet both O/R and cassette tapes. Additionally if one could have managed good FM reception and using a good tuner, live 'simulcasts' of the era were quiet. Indeed I myself recorded such broadcasted concerts and still have some of them on both tape formats. (Alas my Tandberg 10XD is on the fritz for nth time and I see very little purpose in having it repared once again.)
(If you happen to be referring to Ampzilla II or some other GAS product, the same rules don't apply.)
I was speaking for myself and my audiophile friends, YMMV.
"I was speaking for myself and my audiophile friends, YMMV."
If you are talking about fan noise in the first commercial Ampzilla, my mileage DID differ based upon what my own ears told me (having owned and used one).
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