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In the Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat?
Post Subject: Getting there...Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/21/2017
Spend a good few hour moving the boxes, connecting the cables and do other sort of things. Was looking for elegance and more symmetry. The objective was to put midbass channel between the main horn islands and set the horns, the midbass and LF in very firm time-alignment. I am not wild about locating midbass inside and I always advocate to put them outside of the imaging aria but my case is special. I do feel that my speakers are good 2 feet further from each other then they should be and they force me to site further then I would like to as I am getting a bit deeper imaging indentation the middle then I accustomed to. I can’t move the speakers closer and I have retractable 140” screen between the horns. So, the idea was to put the midbass inside in order to virtualize moving the main speaker slightly closer to each other. 
 
Generally it worked very well but it was ugly as there was no good location for the amps, at least sexy location. So, addressed the problem slightly controversial: buy placing the amps atop of the midbass enclosures. I did not detected that the midbass is shaking a lot. In addition the amps are siting atop of very nice custom-made Silent Running Audio platform. There is also 1” rubber sheet between the bottom of SRA platform and the midbass box.  I was listening with Amy’s statoscopes the vibration of the Milq chassis with 0db digital at 80Hz and I was not able to hear anything at the chassis bone-transmitted from midbass. It was so fucking laud over air that if I had anything in statoscopes then I properly was not able to register it. 
 
The setup generally feels very nice. The left 2 drivers of LF are not connected but I desisted to keep them for reasons of prettiness. I need to spend some time to fine tune the crossovers and to listen more but architecturally I think I am all done. Another discovery I made: I am getting old to work on this for hours. I am 49. Not in so great physical shape and it is getting had to jump 344905 times from listening chair and to lift 100 pounds boxes…

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