Few things teach your more about speaker setup than dialling in a pair of Magnepans Ron… and glad the Lampi is doing it for you as well. Having the music flowing is completely the goal.
Ron’s New System
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The Maggies are" easy to play difficult to master'.
I used this method for one.
1. Settle on your triangle.
a. Distance apart
b, Distance form seating position.
2 Settle in toe in or toe out. That depended on whether you want the tweeter section on the inside or outside.
3. Place it within 1 foot of the rear wall. At the point the sound would be thin, and the image will be diffuse.
. Walk the speaker away from the wall at about 1-foot intervals. As you go away form the wall the sound will develop greer slam. The image will begin to focus. Keep doing this until the sound starts to become thinner and begins to lose focus. slowly bring it back to that sweet spot where the sound be to change for the worse. Just beyond that is your sweet spot.
This works for most dipoles. There are other methods.
I used this method for one.
1. Settle on your triangle.
a. Distance apart
b, Distance form seating position.
2 Settle in toe in or toe out. That depended on whether you want the tweeter section on the inside or outside.
3. Place it within 1 foot of the rear wall. At the point the sound would be thin, and the image will be diffuse.
. Walk the speaker away from the wall at about 1-foot intervals. As you go away form the wall the sound will develop greer slam. The image will begin to focus. Keep doing this until the sound starts to become thinner and begins to lose focus. slowly bring it back to that sweet spot where the sound be to change for the worse. Just beyond that is your sweet spot.
This works for most dipoles. There are other methods.
Thanks Ron.
I doubt you are at the point of being buried with your amps happy right now. However, in another six months it is easy to imagine visits from ddk will be the only remaining in doubt periods breaking away from a high level of contentment.
In someone who's directive is listening to a small personally enjoyable selection of music as many times as possible?
Not hard to imagine after years of planning and discussion. Changes David recommends being the only anomaly.
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Maybe the door is opening just a sliver on my question of making use of your room for reviews on M&S. Which was effectively contending with the effects of stasis.
Set a date to discuss this with the requisite parties.
I am trying to find the answer to my question in your reply.
This is the only possibility I am finding.I very much look forward to David’s recommendations.
This last month with the Magnepans has been very fun. I may not have any patience for comparing the sounds of duplex AC wall plates, or much patience for comparing the sounds of power cables, but I enjoy fiddling with the room position of dipoles.
After the kind and generous owner set up the Magnepan + subwoofers system, I made three changes which I was, and still am, happy with. Then subsequent listening sessions with other friends resulted in additional improvements.
It would be great to have a similar period of early experimentation and rapid improvement with the Pendragons before David arrives with the turntables, stands and power cords. On the other hand the Pendragons do not offer as much opportunity for fiddling, as there is no crossover adjustment. And virtually every Pendragon owner places the AMT tweeters on the inside.
So that really just leaves basic Pendragon speaker positioning (which I am comfortable doing myself), bass tower sound level and Q adjustment.
I suffer from a few kinds of nervosa, but, mercifully, audiophilia nervosa is not one of them. I like and appreciate all experiments and suggestions, because I know the sonic attributes I am good at solving for, and I know the sonic attributes I am not sensitive to, and therefore, that I am not good at solving for.
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This was never a question to me. I intend to use the room/system for select component reviews.
I am trying to find the answer to my question in your reply.
My reply quite clearly stated I find it is easy to imagine someone with a lifetime of experience, including direct industry participation, would - to borrow a phrase - Send the Clowns Through the Gates of Kiev enough times within six months a more than reasonable amount of stability was assured. Having come on the tail end of years of planning followed by the unavoidable and nearly insurmountable stream of opinions and revelatory recommendations / recollections to reflect upon.
At which point David's anomalous level of detail is believably going to produce the largest intrusion within that narrow upper percentage of stereo recreation we strive for. Since you are indebted to his manufacturing and prowess attaining the best performance.
I do.
I use a pair of Noble Kaiser 10 IEMs as a reference when tuning speakers in my room. These In Ear Monitors effectively seal out the sound of the room while music is playing. Once level matched, I can pop the earphones in and out of my ears and instantly hear the difference between the source direct (IEM) and the source in the room (speakers). It's sobering to hear how much the speaker and the room color the source.
A bit more progress. . . The record and tape storage unit is completed and populated.
And Mike Goppert’s fancy Timbre Dynamics cable lifters have arrived.
So trying to talk myself into reducing my collection down to a size of the actual "10 records I actually listen to" as my wife says but get stuck when I actually sit down to do it.
Very nice set up!
Question are the cabinet lights hard wired or do you have to charge them, still trying to figure out how they did the wiring.
Isn't the point of the cable lifters to keep the cable off the carpet completely or does part on and part off create audio nirvana?
The LED strip lights are hardwired. (I would not want to have to worry about keeping 35 “flashlights” charged.)
That photo is just to show what the final, custom-design cable lifter looks like. I won’t be using them until the Pendragons are installed, because in the meantime they would just get damaged with all the moving around.
In actual use I intend to have the cables elevated above the carpet.
UPDATE:
Jim White is planning to deliver the beastly, but beautiful, Io around the end of the month. I will want to have a turntable/tonearm/cartridge set up to make sure all is well with the Io, and to play records for the first time in eight years. (I foresee being very frustrated if I’m looking at an entire stereo system and three boxes of phono stage and I am unable to play a record.)
So . . . I have ordered a Hana SL cartridge, a Schitt Mani phono stage and a Denon DP-62L turntable (total cost $1,750).
Keith is very kindly letting me borrow his Octave EQ.2, so I will be returning the Schitt Mani. Thank you very much, Keith!
Jim White is planning to deliver the beastly, but beautiful, Io around the end of the month. I will want to have a turntable/tonearm/cartridge set up to make sure all is well with the Io, and to play records for the first time in eight years. (I foresee being very frustrated if I’m looking at an entire stereo system and three boxes of phono stage and I am unable to play a record.)
So . . . I have ordered a Hana SL cartridge, a Schitt Mani phono stage and a Denon DP-62L turntable (total cost $1,750).
Keith is very kindly letting me borrow his Octave EQ.2, so I will be returning the Schitt Mani. Thank you very much, Keith!
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