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In Reply to: RE: I am looking for guidance in setting up my Tympanis posted by Satie on February 26, 2017 at 19:05:13
You need to fine tune the aspects of positioning from offset from the front wall, to your listening angle (meaning as determined by your listening distance) ,to the spread between the speakers, and tweeters in vs.tweeters out. Once you have these things aligned as well as you can for your preferences then start experimenting with absorption and diffusion.
Instead of watching for tonal shifts and focusing on timbre, you should find a well regarded recording where imaging is known to be very well done. Then do the fine adjustment of the positioning for image related issues, soundstage size and width and depth as separate aspects, image specificity and solidity and detail retrieval. These are all better when the speaker's time behavior is closest to good alignment.
So long as the room is essentially raw there will be tonal balance issues as reflections balance with direct sound.
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Thanks, Satie - can you suggest some recordings?
A good listing is provided by these audiophile sites.
http://www.soundstage.com/referencediscs/referencediscs.htm
http://www.tnt-audio.com/topics/testrecords.html
We recently had a discussion about recordings with interesting soundstaging
http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/t.mpl?f=mug&m=223995
There is also this discussion where Stereophile test CD 2 and 3 are suggested, I use #3 for some testing and have done so since the mid 90s.
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/albums-used-to-position-speakers-for-best-soundstage.206249/
Personally I use The Stravinsky Haitink ballet suites recordings, Modern Jazz Quartet the last concert, Vivaldi La Stravaganza on L'Oiseau Lyre, Billie Holliday's last recordings (stereo), Benny Goodman's live recordings from his 1958 European tour. Decca Ashkenazy Beethoven Piano Concertos, Telarc Beethoven 9th Symphony and the early Karajan DG Beethoven symphony cycle, and a few others used more for late fine tuning once you are closer to being done.
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