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In Reply to: RE: Dunlavy posted by M3 lover on April 04, 2017 at 17:32:27
Thanks for your comment.
The room would be a dedicated music room and long wall placement has long been my preferred setup anyway. so if there was say 12' between the speakers that would leave 5' to either side wall witch should work fine since Dunlavy recommend very direct toe-in aimed at the listener. AS for the seat, it would be against the opposite wall but that is also what Dunlavy recommends ( with absorbing material behind the listener. His view is that, at such short distance, our brain cannot separate the reflexion from the initial sound and chooses to ignore it...
My concern is with bass extension. I really don't want to give up those organ notes...
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The cleanest (flattest) response? The greatest bass impact (loudest, not likely flat)? The deepest extension?
I remember that John typically recommended long wall placement with the listening seat next to the opposite wall. But from reading interviews with him and a couple of personal discussions at CES I know he was a bass range enthusiast (he played acoustic string bass).
But in my experience placing either speakers or the listener's head close to a wall (a corner is worse) brings up the lower bass range. My preference is for accuracy, the flattest response possible. Yours may be different. The most musical and rewarding presentations I've heard from both Duntech and DAL speakers has been in large rooms where NEITHER the speakers or listening seat are close to a wall boundary.
As a point of interest, one of my audio buddies made recordings of the huge outdoor Spreckels Organ locally. When he played that at another friend's home who owned Princess speakers like mine but aided by a pair of 15" Velodyne subs he stated that was the closest playback to original presentation he had heard. Since your option to trade for the SC-IVa might work better overall in your smaller room, you could always add subwoofers for the low end weight to better replicated an organ. Oh yes, that Princess/Velodyne system was in a room about 26' x 20' x 8' and the Duntechs were about 12' apart. Good luck.
"The piano ain't got no wrong notes." Thelonious Monk
Your post reminded me of listening to Magico S7 speakers in their well-designed listening room, where "the listening chair" was several feet from any walls. The OP might consider a Magico model. See them at www.magico.net.
:)
Way to expensive...
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