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In the Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room

Post Subject: About my old system vs. the new system, as now.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/8/2011

Jorge wrote:
I listened to Romys old system, I am sure the new one sound better….

With everyone who comes to my place we discuss that subject: how audio installation in my new listening room sound different from the playback I had in my old place. It is interesting subject. Jorge and perhaps others presume that “new one sound better” but the real answer to this question is not so straight forward. I do myself ask this question frequently, put in this way “use to ask”, and I would like to share my thought about it.

Near year and half ago I move to new house and built a new listening room there were a lot of changes with my playback. New midbass how, new ULF, new room, new speaker positioning, etc etc etc…. The core of the playback was not changed but the way how playback presents itself of changed a lot. In the all place, partially because it was extreme nearfield positioning the playback bit you off right the way, aggressively and immediately. At the new place this sense of bitten urgency got subdued and replaced by other characteristics, less immediately gratifying but in my estimation more appropriate on a long run.

The very major change that took place in the new room is the whole framework, the whole seething of listening and how normal life interacts with listening ceremony. I hugely appreciate this change and the listening setting I built-into in the new listening room in my estimation are perfect for what I am looking. I truly can’t say that I would like to have any different listening condition then what I have.

There are many positive new properties of sound in the new room but I will omit them and will tale only about negative one. So, what did I lose in the new room? In my estimation I have a SLIGHTLY more calm density of colors and little more tranquil response to dynamic contrasts. I attribute it to much larger room and to the fact that in old room practically each inch of the walls and ceiling were covers with “things”. The new room has much wider free reflecting surfaces. I do not have immediate plans to do anything with it as now.

I lost that absolutely phenomenal and very unique horizontal curving of imaging that I use to have. I do some fraction of it today but it is not as good as it use to be.

The next thing that I lost is the way how bass arrange itself in horizontal plane. In the old room it was amassing and absolutely unique, in fact I never ever was able to see the similar effect anywhere else. In the new room I have different bass and different way bass present itself. I do like bass in new room much better but I do prefer the bass presentation of the old room. Well, you can’t step in the same river twice an, the old bass drifter away… I still will be looking how to get what I use to have in old room but with much larger room and the layout of the speakers I am having now I do not think it might be possible. I am not frustrated with my current bass but I do note the reality of “before” and “after”.

The caT

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