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In the Thread: Configuration from Italy: multisell++ and double model 19.

Post Subject: The Sherlock Cat and the corridor roomsPosted by Romy the Cat on: 1/4/2010

KLegind wrote:
I am a big room buffoon. I like to see and hear a room and I like to walk around and "test" it. Sounds dumb but sometimes I can sit in a room and dream about what could be done to it in terms of Sound. It started around the age of 20 so at the time I really had no idea about what I was doing. Actually it wasn't that dumb and it helped me distinguish features of the room from those of the components.
Now, I could not help noticing that 2 Good Ears' mentioned the size of the room: 60 square meters. Then, look at the pic of the complete system. Lets say the speakers are 1.2 meters wide and the distance between then is the same, all in all 3.6 m. Allow for a few inches to the side walls and lets be generous and say 4 m wall to wall. This adds up to a whopping 15 meters long room (assuming its rectangular). How about those pipe resonances...? I have never experienced such a room, but it might have big problems, OR it could yield super interesting sound.

My own room is 12-13 feet wide and 21 feet long with high ceiling. First I thought there'd be big problems but its way better than any of my previous rooms. Much depends on how you manage those standing waves.

Happy New Year

Yes, Kris, I thought about it but decided do not comment on it and I feel it is most likely not the case. it you look at the their picture from above, where the right channel depicted then you would see that the speaker is positioned not next to the wall that goes all the way to the end of the room but at a short wall, behind which the room continues. So, I do not think that the Toni’s system tale a full width of the room but most likely a1/2-1/2 of the width. There are other evidences that the room is not 15M long. Take a look at the second picture at the bottom – you can see carpet which is not between the speakers (center of the room) but biased to the right – it means that room most likely continues to the right. Also, on the same picture you can see a part of the table. Behind which I presume a listing location. Even assuming the wide lenses distortion it does not look too far – I would estimate 3-4M. Now, pretend that you sit 3.5 M from speakers and you room 15M, then where will you locate your records? Look at the forth picture from tope – the record shelve are located at the very end of the room, next to window. If you are right with your estimate of 15M room length then the records are at 15M-3.5M = 11.5M away! No one would put itself into that abuse to walk over 30 feet for get another record. Not to mention that if Tony would have room length then he would move records away from window.

The second part of your question is if it possible to get any more or less civilized sound from a “corridor type” of the rooms. I generally do not like it and I prefer used wide wall of rooms. But it is very difficult to make any generalizations about it and we do not know what mode the “corridor type” room would have and how those modes would be embraced and USED by the installation. I have seen one system in a very long corridor room of 12feet wide with speakers at ridicules 25-30 feet way location. The speakers were Tannoy GRF, rectangular. To my surprise it was very balanced sound on the room. So, it is not what it is but how it being used.

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