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Thanks Dusty!  Good info.  Those KEFs are high priced!  $30K...  Crossed at 350hz and 2.3K so maybe those drivers are not doing too much work.  91db at 4ohms with 3.2ohm minimum.  Very different from my current philosophy.  I wonder how people end up with different philosophies when it comes to systems.  Something like this is so much different from the Magico just one post above it.  Of course the price is a lot different.  But there are plenty of half million dollar cone systems that are similar in philosophy to the KEFs. 

 

The burlap square things are ATS damping panels.  They are standard fiberglass sound absorbing material in a wood frame covered in coffee sacks.  I have four of those two X two panels in the room.  I am seriously considering getting into diffusion, but I like the sound now, so I don't really care that much. 

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It's pretty common to have more than one set of monitors in a control/mixing/mastering room.

The idea is to have a main set to adjust the sound just right and alternate speakers to get a "real world" idea of how it will sound.

This wouldn't be needed if everybody listened on a great pair of speakers but the majority of the music buying public listen to set ups that have little or no bass and hyped up treble (car stereos, earbuds, laptop and TV speakers).

This doesn't mean that the music is tailored to the lowest common denominator, but, you don't want the important stuff to be lost or screeching.

This process is called "translation".

Actually, those Genelecs are pretty high class for what they're being used for.

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Everything better be stapled, nailed, screwed down or otherwise grommeted, otherwise it will be like one of those old vibrating magnetic/weighted football games.

Hard to sit in the sweet spot when you are vibrating around the room.

I'm thinking that rig would be like when I saw Slayer and my clothes were vibrating and I couldn't stop blinking.

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