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In Reply to: RE: Anyone Try Planars on a Loft? posted by MG-bert on May 17, 2017 at 12:47:05
I tried my IIIa's in a loft and was extremely disappointed. I never liked the sound with the chair along the railing. When firing across the room it was too constricted. I also tried it with the Maggies at the railing with the backs firing out into the family room behind and below. It sounded terrible. Dead.
So, no, I was never able to get it to work in my loft with my speakers. YMMV
What I have had success at is what I call large room REVERSE MAGGIES. I put the chair within a foot or two of the wall of a huge room. Then I place the speakers out about ten feet from the wall behind me. This gives a near field listening experience with no short term sidewall or front wall reflections. It gives a huge depth of field on naturally recorded acoustic music.
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+1 to Swami's observation.
You need the reflections to fill out the tonal balance (power response) so removing all of them by placement at an open space will make them sound dull, so that the spectacular imaging obtained that way is not going to be enjoyable.
I don't think dipoles need front walls. They actually do quite well in open space.
I always wanted to drag my speakers out and onto the deck in the back of the house. Perhaps to learn even more I'll move them onto the lawn.
I'll make sure it can't rain on that day, there will be a continuous cloud layer to shield them from direct sunlight, and at least 1000 feet of speaker wire to connect them to their amps (which are too heavy for me to schlepp around).
I'll be on look-out for men/women wearing little white jackets.
Thank you Swamis Cat and Satie for your observations! I like Swamis' idea of the large room placement (although a large rectangular room would be a good candidate for a Limage setup as well - not to mention a Rooze). But this did have the unintended effect of waving a red flag in front of this audio bull. Since spectacular imaging is possible on a loft, but the tonal balance suffers? Hmmmm... can that be at least partially corrected with EQ? And a subwoofer placed close to the listening seat? Curious minds will find out!
We won't be in a serious house market for another year or so, but when we are, if we can find a place with both a large room and a loft, experimentation will ensue! And get written up here.
MG-bert
Well, don't expect to preserve the great imaging once you apply EQ. Nothing like phase differences in different portions of the freq range to kill off imaging.
There is a claimed phase free digital EQ plugin for foobar, and I would expect one compatible with each of the more popular player software packages. I don't think it actually sound like it is phase free. But it is a bit difficult to distinguish that from the EQ effect.
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