Re: Linkwitz Lab Orion Speakers - Don B

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Re: Linkwitz Lab Orion Speakers

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Posted by Don B on August 31, 2003 at 20:16:54

In Reply to: Re: Linkwitz Lab Orion Speakers posted by ccd on August 31, 2003 at 15:27:59:

Yes, a very fine analysis. I appreciate your time to both listen and organize your thoughts and set them down.

On the issue of pin point imaging, I think I can be more clear than I was during your visit. I think the biggest cause for what you heard - and I agreed with - is the distance from the seating area to the speakers. As things are now, this only permits a fairly narrow angle between left and right channels. If the room were another 20 feet longer ( and the couch were moved back another 20 feet), mono or stereo would become a question mark. Forget pin point anything.

The solutions to the problem are to move the seat forward four or five feet to provide a more conventional listening triangle, or move the seat a foot or so forward and widen the room another four feet. One of these isn't going to happen, and the other really isn't going to happen.

But in any case, I certainly did not mean to imply that the Orions were uniquely susceptible to proximity to the side walls. In fact, I believe quite the opposite: their dipole design permits the 90 degree off-axis cancellation to face the side walls, making them much less interactive than a monopole design. It is the directional characteristic of the Orions - and their smooth polar pattern - that allow such a clear result as far away as I sit. It probably also explains why giving up the more normal stereo seat wasn't all that traumatic. It's like moving towards the back of the auditorium: same glorious sound, just less directional stuff.

So. Here we sit on the couch. Against the back wall. And still married. From four or five feet further back, life is also good.

Thanks again. A pleasure to meet you.

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