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In Reply to: RE: Finding the best position for Maggies? posted by Satie on April 30, 2015 at 16:06:23
Setup is very dependent of the room and where you have your listening position! As AkuAnka, like me, live in Scandinavia, our rooms may be a bit different to rooms in the US or Hong Kong (as I think is where Limage came up). I have been renovating my listening room and just pulled the speakers, the electronics and a few furnitures in there to listen - it sounded awful. At first, I thought something had happend to the speakers. After a while, more furnitures entered the room and it started to sound like before. As I see it, many Scandinavian style rooms need some work, we often have to little of dampening furnitures. I would start with following the instructions given by Magnepan. My own modified Tympani IVa will need to use a different setup as my room is narrow.
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Understood, that scandinavian interior design is rather spare and thus result in some echoey and top heavy acoustics. That only means that some effort should be put in to have something in the room to deliberately diffuse sound - particularly in the back of the room (listening seat side) when doing a Limage type setup and the front of the room for most other setups.
Thank you very much for all great comments and instructions!
I'm fortunate that I will be able to build a dedicated listening room upstairs, so I will surely be using some diffusers, bass traps, absorption etc. to get good enough reverberation time measurements thru the whole frequency range. My room will be (after I brake a few walls...) about 5m x 7m, and since my house is made of wood, it should be quite a good room for this purpose anyway.
Swamis Cat; I would loooove to hear your list of reference tracks for setting up, just as everybody else's recommendations also! Even better if you could describe a bit why do you use that specific track; what parts of it do you listen for, when do you know setup is "right", which kind of a faults does that track expose etc.
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