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zanon wrote:

Romy: I did not know you sat less than 6 feet from Maconda. Can I ask why you chose this position? Was it required by your room (it is small room, Macondo is big system) or was there some auditory effect you were searching for and found 5.8 ft away?

Hm…. It is hard to explain. It might be 5.8’, 6.0’ or 6.2’ or more. The “secret” that no one would tell you is that if everything else is done properly and sensibly then there is practically not difference if the distance from which a playback is able to integrated itself.

I know, I know, some might consider what I say as foolishness - everyone have an experience that approximation to a speaker disintegrate sound. In reality what people experience is not the problem of distance but they just jump outside of the realm where the given integration efforts work properly. If to have an objective to setup playback for very extreme nearfield (the way how I use Macondo) then it is perfectly possible to accomplish it. The 6-ways, 8 feet tall acoustic system from 6 feet?  Sound like insane, doesn’t it? The Macondo in it’s current state is a wonderful prove that it is not insane but a perfectly doable. I very much like that feeling of suspicion in the faces of the  people who never were in my room before who sit in front Macondo  for a first time at 6 feet  and have disbelieve that it ever might “work”. The more experienced person – the stronger the disbelieve. From the 6 feet the angle of listener’s eyes sight does not allow to see the all Macondo transducers, so the disbelieve is not a foolishness.  Then I play music and the conceptual disbelieve comfort the reality…

The point of all of it is that here and there I hear people talk about the integration boundaries, particularly for horns.  In most of those cases people in my view talk nonsense. If you are local then stop by and you will see/hear the evidence of it.

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