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In Reply to: RE: Magnepan 1.7 or 3.6 -small room! posted by FX35 on August 05, 2021 at 08:13:28
Thanks, that was really helpful! The room has wooden floor and stone walls and ceiling. It is closed and not dedicated for listening. Unfortunately speakers can only be positioned on the long side, slightly asymmetrical. The room has a natural good sounding acoustics with other speakers I've had, including Elac FS409 which despite the two 18cm woofer did not produce invasive bass at all, rather very controlled bass.
The thing is I will be changing of place in about 6 months but I don't know we're exactly, but so can assume listening room will be as big as this one or slightly larger but not by much, and most likely it will not be a dedicated room.
Definitely realistic soundstage is more important to me than clean bass. Given your feedback I would tend to go for the 3.6, but the visual impact of such a large speaker in a small non dedicated room has to be considered as well.
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'realistic soundstage is more important to me than clean bass'
you can't get one without the other no matter what type speaker is playing
just my experience of course, but it's broad and non-biased
regards,
Why is that?
Anyway I didn't mean that I'm willing to accept bloated and completely uncontrolled bass, simply the most accurate bass reproduction is not my priority. In my experience I doubt bass could be extremely bad in this room, given that it has for some reason good acoustics even though it's not treated.
IME realism is dependent on a balanced frequency response
bass and the lower mid-range are the foundation that imbue scale while the upper mids and treble provide spatial cues to the sound stage
when we listen to music and notice there's 'something missing' or conversely undue emphasis in frequency response it detracts from the realism of the presentation ... our attention shouldn't be drawn to any particular aspect other than what the performance includes
if you're asking why I'm not biased about what comprises those elements in reproduction it's because I've heard excellent renderings by a variety of speaker types
with regards,
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