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In Reply to: RE: Sure posted by E-Stat on August 05, 2020 at 09:00:04
What kind of electrostatics are those? Looks like your listening space is in an upper level dormered room. The best room I've ever had was a dormered space with the angled walls starting about five feet up. I had no room treatments but I wasn't using Magnepans at the time.
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which would now be referred to as a U-790 denoting height of panel in feet and radiation angle.
Looks like your listening space is in an upper level dormered room.
Exactly! It is essentially a large bedroom that spans the depth of the house with dormers both front and rear. I get very neutral bass response as a result. :)
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The tube traps can't hurt. Did you build the diffusers behind the speakers? From down sizing my listening room is much smaller now and sounded like crap before I treated it. I couldn't even get small monitors to sound worth anything in there. Real bass traps, by that I mean 2x4 four inch thick rockwool panels in each corner and lots of absorption on the walls, it now supports Maggie 1.7s quite nicely. When we retire to VA I'll make sure to find a house with a lower level or something with more size for an audio room.
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The tube traps can't hurt. Did you build the diffusers behind the speakers?
Absolutely. I experimented extensively with placement of both traps and speakers. I found that stuffing all the big ones in the corners and using about an eight foot to front wall placement measurably improved bass linearity.
Actually, I built the bass traps using this recipe while the diffusors are commercially available RPG Skylines.
Glad to hear of your success with the 1.7s. I've been using one form or another of room treatments for over thirty years. Room dimension ratios matter too. The upstairs room is approximately 26 x 15 with a slightly extended section for half the width at the rear. While the "Golden Ratio" is 1.61, the primary room dimensions are close at 1.56. I've found such minimizes room modes.
Wifey and I are in the process of a home remodeling project (9 weeks in!) that combines the kitchen, family room and butler pantry areas while also moving the outside wall five feet further out. French doors leading outside will flank the fireplace. You may have seen the pic of the 1+1s in the home theater. That wall in front of the speakers is now gone (about where the exposed LVL beam is) and system orientation will be reversed. The dimensions will be both larger and closer to the Golden ratio.
I'll be able to tuck some of the gear in what will be the hidden closet to the right with only the processor and cable box sitting under the monitor on an invisible shelf. All cabling will be shuttled through conduits in wall and under floor between wall and speaker.
Why would you want to hide all your gear? :)
LineSource
I just want to hide those that really don't need to be seen like the power amp and the Blu Ray player. Most importantly, I want to avoid having a visible morass of wires like this:
What will be seen is the Emotiva processor and Motorola cable box - both of which need line of sight for remote control use. All the wiring, however, will be out of sight in their hidden chases and not collecting dust bunnies on the floor. :)
As an aside to this thread - can you drive your U-1PX speakers to fairly high volumes or do they eventually self-protect like my Quad 2905s? I'm not aware of anywhere in UK one can hear Sound Labs speakers.
Dave
They can play at fairly high volumes with the 300 watt per channel VTL amps. Since I originally purchased them in 2005, there have been improvements in sensitivity to both panels and backplates improving output.
They're burned in at the factory driven by an 800 watt amp. ;)
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