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Re: Quad Speakers

" then moved into a bigger place, with a properly designed listening room. The room has no parallel walls, a sloping ceiling, a built-in tuneable bass trap and the walls are lined with acoustic wood and fibreform for absorption/diffusion. The reverberation time is <0.5s, and there is no standing wave. Here, the Quads actually do less well. I was not able to get the listening volume up to realistic levels ( and this is with just two-year-old panels and EHT). When placed further apart then before (now about 9 - 10 ft apart), the imaging suffers unless I am seated dead in the middle. The bass has also become deficient without the help of the room."

Looks to me that you have some issues with the room, except if the room is exceedingly large there will always be standing waves, dips and notches, non-parrallel walls not withstanding, did you take any measurements in your new room? The issue of realistic volumes is probably valid, but issues with imaging, seem to be room induced.

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