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In Reply to: RE: Change can be a very good thing if it doesn't distract from listening pleasure. posted by Audiophilander on June 02, 2015 at 01:06:12
You can use little spike cups or moving discs to make re positioning easy or get rounded feet instead of spikes.
Swami, the benefits of bracing are at the source, and once you have optimized positioning to a couple of locations even having spikes is not that much of a problem. The improvements in bass dynamics and image specificity are major, not minor. These will carry to any position you choose. The vast majority of the improvements is unrelated to the spikes so neutralizing them with rounded feet or cups/discs to facilitate easy movement will allow as much repositioning as you might want to do. Mye stands do it very conveniently and well.
I don't subscribe to the backtilt and it is not beneficial in a Limage setup, where straight 90 deg is best. The backtilt is something PG introduced into the maggies he mods and was done by Apogee and in the old SMG. It moves the soundstage height to make it sound more like box speakers. Where there is either a tall ceiling or absorptive floor and ceiling (rugs and acoustic tiles) there is more room for experimenting with tilt. Generally I set up for plumb every time I move the speakers.
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Thanks Audiophilander and Satie. This is what I was looking for. Setting the Mye stands up on sliders would work great.
Like you, I prefer perfectly upright. I do question the comment that the leaning back in the new models is intended. I assume it is NOT because the amount of leaning isn't even consistent between my two speakers. Perhaps the new revised round bases will improve matters. I didn't notice any lean back at the AXPONA demo with the new stands.
Without Mye stands I have adjusted vertical dimension by using quarters (under the rear of the feet) and/or by reversing the feet.
I've got money saved up, maybe I should give Grant a call...
The slight tilt on my Maggie stock feet looked the same side by side, but I didn't make any precise measurements as to the degree of tilt beyond eyeballing the results. The set screws and washers on the stock feet were tightened to similar tolerance, so perhaps tightening the screws makes a difference in respect to degree of tilt on stock feet. I'm still persuaded that the subtle back-tilt on recent upper end models may be intentional, but I have no evidence to support that theory and Magnepan is pretty cagey about sharing R&D design changes.Additional Note: The Mye stands started at a 90 degree perpendicular. Using bubble levels while raising or lowering the threaded feet can incrementally adjust the tilt forward or backward with precision.
Cheers,
AuPh
Edits: 06/05/15
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