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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: About the undeveloped audio installations.

Post Subject: Very informativePosted by montepilot on: 5/29/2009

I no doubt fall into the category of the 70%. My playback has not been as satisfying as I would like. Many of us do not know where to turn when we hit a brick wall with extracting the best results. The default reaction is to look for a piece of equipment or cable to swap out. Sometimes a helpful and astute listener can enable us to move beyond preconceived boundaries we have become locked into.

As an example the setup instructions for my speakers indicate it is best to sit in an equilateral triangle position with speakers toed in toward the listeners seat. I have been toying with this setup for nearly two years by slightly varying the angle of toe in or moving a few inches closer to or farther away from the rear wall with minimum results.

Recently a friend came by and after listening for a short while went into the bathroom tore two long strips of toilet paper off the roll sat them atop the speakers and allowed them to hang over the face of the drivers. This had the affect of nearly vanishing some HF energy that was grating and irritating with certain types of classical music. Next he had us move the sofa to nearly the back wall of my living room. This had a profound affect upon the sound. The bass became much richer, more naturally fuller. Midrange improved with better separation of instruments which was immediately noticeable. We were now able to remove toilet paper. This yielded an improvement beyond my expectations. I have recently rearranged the living room to accomodate this change.

While there are some areas of improvement I am still looking to attain this experience taught me to break the rules, even taking radical steps beyond conventional recommendations. The sad thing is I would have looked to an equipment change to get these results had it not been for my visitors help. I have in a sense become liberated from the typical audiophile imposed restraints.

This may be my first step in discovering where the DPoL sound exist in my listening space.

Regards,

montepilot

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