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RE: Wouldn't stop anything. Matter of fact people can do what you suggest but don't.

Actually, I quite agree with you with respect to setting up speakers in a real room (at least a small one that isn't so great.) As I've previously posted, I found it just about impossible to set up my Focal near field monitors and sub woofer by ear. There were just too many adjustments that interacted with speaker position, etc... What I ended up doing was to purchase a calibrated microphone and RTA software and measure the bass response at my listening position. After some fine tuning of speaker position and sub woofer adjustments and after dialing in some parametric equalization I was able to get flat response from 30 Hz up to 20 kHz. However, at this point the system still sounded too bright and many recordings were unpleasant or worse. I finally voiced the high frequencies by ear, so that some previous reference recordings sounded natural and the vast majority of my collection sounded neither too bright or too dull. This ended up with a measured response that began to taper off at 2 KHz and was down -3.5 dB at 10 kHz, where it was shelved. (This was about half-way down in the tweeter control for the Focal Twin-6's.).

I am suspicious of both measurements and listening tests, even those that I make myself. I consider it insurance to have a system that measures good and also sounds great. I would be suspicious of a system that sounded great that didn't measure well, because it would only be a matter of time before coming up against recordings where the fault showed up in listening.


Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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  • RE: Wouldn't stop anything. Matter of fact people can do what you suggest but don't. - Tony Lauck 07/24/1412:45:00 07/24/14 (0)

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