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Hey all,
When I moved into my latest apartment a few years ago and set up my audio gear, I absolutely hated the 'new' sound of my system. The place has wall to wall carpeting and lush curtains on either side of the room. The sound was dead and boring and I quickly moved to headphones for my serious music listening.
Well..... recently I decided to fight back.....and move my speakers around a bit. I moved my my speaker towers a few feet closer together, out into the room a bit, and tweaked the toe in. I also removed the grill from my center channel speaker (because it's lower and closer to the carpet) in hopes that would perk it up a bit and the results have been nothing short of astonishing!!! 8O
Because of the 'dead' aspect of this listening room, there are ZERO standing waves on the bass front and everything just came to life! Deep....rolling bass and extremely wonderful imaging when listening in 2.2 channel stereo. I started listening to 2 channel stereo again when I'm spinning HDCD's because I realized that in order for my Rotel to process this format, it must be in stereo only.
I've said this time and time again but speaker placement is critical when it comes to audio and how your speakers will perform. Small changes produce HUGE results!! Seems when I moved into this apartment I forgot this important aspect of home audio. Lesson re-learned !!:T
Now, much to the chagrin of my neighbors (No complaints yet!!) , I can listen to my audio system again without headphones and it's wonderful!
When I moved into my latest apartment a few years ago and set up my audio gear, I absolutely hated the 'new' sound of my system. The place has wall to wall carpeting and lush curtains on either side of the room. The sound was dead and boring and I quickly moved to headphones for my serious music listening.
Well..... recently I decided to fight back.....and move my speakers around a bit. I moved my my speaker towers a few feet closer together, out into the room a bit, and tweaked the toe in. I also removed the grill from my center channel speaker (because it's lower and closer to the carpet) in hopes that would perk it up a bit and the results have been nothing short of astonishing!!! 8O
Because of the 'dead' aspect of this listening room, there are ZERO standing waves on the bass front and everything just came to life! Deep....rolling bass and extremely wonderful imaging when listening in 2.2 channel stereo. I started listening to 2 channel stereo again when I'm spinning HDCD's because I realized that in order for my Rotel to process this format, it must be in stereo only.
I've said this time and time again but speaker placement is critical when it comes to audio and how your speakers will perform. Small changes produce HUGE results!! Seems when I moved into this apartment I forgot this important aspect of home audio. Lesson re-learned !!:T
Now, much to the chagrin of my neighbors (No complaints yet!!) , I can listen to my audio system again without headphones and it's wonderful!
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