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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.

^ Terrific album, I have that in LP, wonderful Now fresh from emusic: Sergio Mendes - Encanto [2008] Surprising the bass drone in the first track It's shaking the small room from those tiny SL600. Like the arrangement of the Bacharach's classic tune.

No problems at all using FF at home on Windows XP (SP3) and at work, also FF but on XP SP-1. No custom add-ons but the spell corrector and RIP which only works when at HF.

I guess at Headroom they-re waiting to have some HD800 units to use them as "reference" to design their next top of the line. Were those HD800 as good as most people having listened to them say, it makes sense designing an amp that whether balanced or SE pushes their performance as high as possible.

Very cool mate. What pads are those, also Pro 30?

LOL, make a clone of that and send it to me hehehehe. Pics?