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Greetings Inmates,Brand new to the forum as well as to the world of high-end audio. After researching several models and brands of speakers for a few months I pulled the trigger on a pair of Magnepan MMGs. I've had them for one week and just added a very needed powered sub yesterday. The MMGs alone, especially in this room, are somewhat shy on bass. My listening room is about 16-by-25 feet or so with tapered 8 foot ceilings. It's a finished room above our garage which also doubles as my office and was my oldest daughter's bedroom before she moved out. There is still a lot of extra stuff in the room that certainly isn't helping the sound, but in time I plan to address as much of this as I can. The plus is that it is the one room in the house where I can pretty much play what I want and at what volume I want :)
I am still experimenting with placement, toe-in, sub settings and placement, room arrangement and treatments, etc. I have not fooled with tweeter attenuation yet, but there are instructions from Magnepan on how to do this if desired.
But at the same time I am also very much enjoying the sound of this setup! I don't have any particular question - just saying hello and certainly welcome any input/suggestions/thoughts from any and all of you. I'm brand new to all of this and have learned quite a bit in the last couple months thanks in part to another member on the forum.
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Welcome...
Congrats...
There are allot of peeps on this board with great insight and experience...
This is the Cardas Calculator for planar placement...works well but needs tweaking after once a good general spot is found...
My gut feeling is they are too far apart for good center image...IMHO...
Sadie has some great insight on many methods of placement...
Contrats, and welcome.
Extra stuff isn't all that bad, acoustically that is, unless it is rattling - bit I'm sure you would have taken care of that stuff Nice big room!
Let them sing... The MMG's of course.
"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat" - Confucius
Got it (on the MMGs singing). No one wants to hear me sing ;)
So where did you end up positioning them?
Any subwoofers?
I've got them about 15 feet apart playing across the width of the room. I have a feeling playing down the length of the room would be better but I have not been able to rearrange and experiment yet with that setup.
I added a single Klipsch SW-110. I didn't do as much research into subs - found this one on sale and it does the trick for now.
You can probably get better performance - particularly in the depth dimension on the short wall where you can pull the speakers to a goodly distance off the front wall into the room.
I've got them a good 3 feet off the wall and angled toward the listening position.
While that 3' is a good distance for a box speaker the planar dipole has a better optimal distance further from the wall at about 5-6 feet and in some arrangement schemes it can be pulled out further than that (e.g. "Limage/HK" placement scheme). That is only possible on the short wall.
Thanks for the info - I probably should think of arranging them to play the length of the room as opposed to the width.
How far is your listening position?
-Wendell
Listening position is about 8 feet from each speaker.
I don't understand how they present a realistic sound stage with good center fill with that setup. If it works for you nothing else matters. Enjoy.
-Wendell
I'm so new to this I don't know if this is the best setup. Real experimenting is going to require rearranging the room which I'm open to but have not had time to do yet. I am open to suggestions though as to which setup/arrangement I should consider first.
Best to start with the speakers and listening position forming an equilateral triangle and fine tune from there.
-Wendell
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"Best to start with the speakers and listening position forming an equilateral triangle and fine tune from their."
Seconded. (But I recommend tuning from there instead of "their")
Welcome! Enjoy!
Let's see a room picture. :)
Good idea! I need to pick a few things up first though.
:)
My rom was not presentable a few weeks ago. Spent some time cleaning instead of sitting for a change finally...
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