This is a tough question to answer, I know, but having a pair of Aeris's on order, and what I discovered last night has me rethinking my speaker location.
I have a dedicated 2 channel music room. 3 separate circuits, and maybe LCR walls. It's 15' X 19' gear on short wall. I have the Spatial X3 open baffle speakers playing in this room and they sound very good to my ears but my wife never warmed to them. We moved our Buchardt S400 MK II's in this room and they simply outplayed the big Spatials. The Spatials are for sale and the order was placed for the Aeris.
In a much larger room where I have a HT system and a 117" projector screen along with 11 channels of quality speakers, we moved the Spatials into that room just to see how they would sound in a larger space. The Spatila played huge. They really opened up, even with lesser electronics. I moved my integrated and DAC into the HT room to gain missing fidelity and was rewarded again. It was interesting though how playing through one AC circuit with an APC power conditioner destroyed the presentation. It sounded like my system was out of phase. But still, the difference in sound between rooms is amazing.
I've lived by the rule of making the music room as good as it can be. A well sounding system is largely dependent on a good room. Having the Aeris coming our way one day we now are pursuing the idea of using the Aeris in the HT room. This would entail adding 3 circuits of 10/2 Romex (our dedicated 2 channel room has 12/2 as the contractor changed my specification - he told me I didn't need it and it was illegal). The benefit would be an amazing HT system. The downside would be a whole lot of electronics in one area!
The Aeris has Wavelet, which could theoretically compensate for a bad room (if it is truly a bad room). I wonder if anyone here has experience with the wavelet utilized in different rooms?
I have a dedicated 2 channel music room. 3 separate circuits, and maybe LCR walls. It's 15' X 19' gear on short wall. I have the Spatial X3 open baffle speakers playing in this room and they sound very good to my ears but my wife never warmed to them. We moved our Buchardt S400 MK II's in this room and they simply outplayed the big Spatials. The Spatials are for sale and the order was placed for the Aeris.
In a much larger room where I have a HT system and a 117" projector screen along with 11 channels of quality speakers, we moved the Spatials into that room just to see how they would sound in a larger space. The Spatila played huge. They really opened up, even with lesser electronics. I moved my integrated and DAC into the HT room to gain missing fidelity and was rewarded again. It was interesting though how playing through one AC circuit with an APC power conditioner destroyed the presentation. It sounded like my system was out of phase. But still, the difference in sound between rooms is amazing.
I've lived by the rule of making the music room as good as it can be. A well sounding system is largely dependent on a good room. Having the Aeris coming our way one day we now are pursuing the idea of using the Aeris in the HT room. This would entail adding 3 circuits of 10/2 Romex (our dedicated 2 channel room has 12/2 as the contractor changed my specification - he told me I didn't need it and it was illegal). The benefit would be an amazing HT system. The downside would be a whole lot of electronics in one area!
The Aeris has Wavelet, which could theoretically compensate for a bad room (if it is truly a bad room). I wonder if anyone here has experience with the wavelet utilized in different rooms?
