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Post Subject: The next dayPosted by Romy the Cat on: 4/4/2017
The last night I “locked” Thomas to watch Masha and Bear in
my office and spent some time with playback trying to answers a few questions in
my head.
First, I needed to discover what was the source of the ridicules
double-sound that I experienced another day. Doing more listening I realized that
my overall system balance moved to right channel. I went to check the Macondo calibration
(gain by individual channel) and very quick realized that it was criminally
off. Apparently someone, I do think that it was Thomas as neither my wife nor
cleaning ladies allow to touch amplifiers, turned each single knob of both Melquiades.
The worth thing was that that Thomas max out the Injection Channels at both
amps, what a little rag rat! I remember all calibrations with no measurement
(count clicks on step attenuators) and as I put the Macondo back to a proper
working order I did get a nice result.
Second is that I still not clear how to deal with my video
vs audio dilemma. As the way how it is setup now I might play audio or video
via Macondo or via a crap alternative SS pilot playback that I made available (4
ugly Cambridge Sound satellite speakers and Sunfire sub). All of it driven from
preamp, so the connection is not a problem. I use the pilot sound to play sports
on the big screen for friends (I do not watch sports). The sound is very ugly, plus
it is cold-running SS setup. A few times wify and me sit to watch some films
and she was explicitly complaining that “sound was not beautiful”. Trust me,
with my MASS-grown wife, raised upon the principles of extreme-left political correctness
it meant a lot of expressed negativism…
So, I was wondering last night if it possible to make my pilot
playback a bit more palatable. It was Yamaha B2 and I was trying Dunlavy II and
Celestion 600 that I had sitting in basement. Bothe speaker did deliver survivable
result in small rooms before but in context of my current, relatedly large room
it was very bad. The proper solution would be to drag my Cetla 91 from the basement
but Cetla 91 are large. I can accommodate Cetla AND Macondo and the rest playback
together within 22 feet but it will be not elegant and I would like not to do
it. So, I am kind of at lost. I have an idea to compliment 4 ugly Cambridge
Sound satellite speakers and Sunfire sub with own upper midrange channel (and I
have plenty of it in basement). I think it will make it a bit friendlier. I
have the leftover Macondo’s MiniMe’s little bass tower and it might do.
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=9564
I have no idea how it will work when I will drive it very
hard to fill the whole room…
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