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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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