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hahahaha, that's not Blackmore's

I wish they won't however it's been an usual MS practice to stop supporting more than 2 OS for pro or home use at the same time. Maybe they keep supporting XP and stop doing on Vista hahahaha. If that 2015 prediction is right, we'll be fine.

Congratulations Jack. Keep trying things like small adjustments on toe-in and speakers separation, you could find that they completely disappear. In fact I'm quite sure they will So far, that you have found a tonal balance you can enjoy and is not bright anymore is a very good thing. Regarding the TSM-MM, they're very nice monitors. They offer one of the best mid bass response I know of in any speaker, and are quite less finicky about amps than the VSM, though they can sound really wonderful with the adequate ones.

Congrats mate. Any first impressions about sound?

Yep. Moreover MS is about releasing a new OS in a few months when the beta phase is over. When this happens, they will most likely stop supporting the older OS, which is XP, then no new security updates, drivers... Vista sucks and I hate it, but for elementary tasks it works more or less as anything else. You start to be in trouble when trying to install drivers, program updates, codecs, some software... all things your mom won't be doing on her own.

Oh, for the position of his hands I thought he was doing something else.

VSM-MX. A fair compromise which works very well into the room.

Hehehehe, I had a pair of Sonus Faber Amati which were sounding OK on our previous (rented) flat, a very well constructed place with 1 1/2' brick and mortar walls, marble floors, big room with an irregular shape (no parallel walls and only 1 square angled corner)... When we moved to this place I was fearing the worst, and it was the worst. There was no way I could make this place handle the bass output of those monsters. I tried any imaginable placement to no avail. The best thing is that it was very easy afterwards finding the right place for the Merlins. I haven't needed any room treatment and placement is very living friendly IMO, and wife, the important one, agrees

I would include in that group also people who didn't choose the right speakers for their room's size and construction quality hehehe. But minor treatments to cover glass and reflecting surfaces on the primary reflection areas are something you cannot skip if you found the place to get the most important things right.

Sure Postjack, all those windows and the TV screen are causing primary and secondary reflections, which are more noticeable on treble, but those are easy to manage with drapes, curtains, tapestry... and also by toe-in depending on the dispersion pattern of your tweeters. At this stage just try to get a good balance for the bass, make sure you don't have boominess, too long decays or other issues polluting the bass precision and balance to the midrange. If treble is screaming at loud volume, you can handle that later with room treatment.

Yep, that's it. Do it at small increments and if possible, leave marks on the floor on the positions you find the sound interesting going in the direction you want it to go. Don't give up if finding a "good enough" position at first try or getting worse sound. Remember you're trying to get a right tonal balance in the first place, better imaging is just a bonus. I like using mono recordings for this, so you just have to focus on tonal balance and not spoiling the bold, solid and coherent central image.

I see... and what if you place the speakers a bit further into the room and one or two feet away between them?

Joe Newman with Frank Foster - Good 'n' Groovy (1961) Then, as a homage to the recently passed away David "Fathead" Newman: David "Fathead" Newman - Blue Head

Glad you've been able to improve things in the right direction. Your room is a difficult one for the openings to adjacent rooms, the fireplace and all those windows. I guess that by placing your listening chair right in the opening to the foyer puts you out of the reach of the room width's mode and also, for not having a rear wall behind where modes are at their max, you can diminish a lot the room's length mode. The only major issues I can see from that drawing are that the speakers seem to be quite close together, maybe at less than 6' measured from tweeters centers, and also that you're listening very far away from them at probably double that distance, maybe more. While this has proved to have some benefits on the frequency response -which I think is more important-, could be causing an imprecise and narrow imaging. What happens when you place the listening chair in the middle of the room or closer to the speakers than that point? Not suggesting that's better, just trying to get an idea how are working your room's acoustics.

Let your instinct lead you. Some of the best decisions I made in my lifetime weren't the most sensible but the ones best fitting my "guts feeling".

Greed is such a nasty thing....

Happy Bday

Nik B

Ha, I didn't see the switch, so forget about the wires

Now that you mention it, yes, the red one. I need a new set of glasses

I think in this community you can trust any of the long term members, as much for their dependability as for their fine non-biased judgment. Probably it'd be good to wait until an interested one offers. The unit looks nice and tidy, congratulations. Has it to be ordered for specific AC voltage or can it work either at 120 or 230V?

Opeth - Watershed [2008] Not bad, but not as good as I was expecting for the rave comments so far. I'm still on track 4.

I wonder how would work the high density urethane which Sony used for the rings around the drivers in the R10. Anyone tried anything like that?

LOL even a spoon would do faster

I wonder if the T30's drivers would fit into those enclosures, they look about the right size.