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With exception to the fact that I have no bass my new room did not give me a lot that I feel might be qualified as strange. I still do not know this room as good as I knew my old room but I will be there, it is a derivative of time. It is not that I do not “have” bass in the new room – I do not connect bass. My woofer towers are sitting in the next room, not connected. I do feel that it is possible to make them to work properly in context of this room but it would take a LOT of efforts to take care about more powerful amplification and going for complicated filtration to deal with the room bass idiosyncrasies.  Since the midbass horn will override all those efforts I decided do not do anything with LF channels unit the midbass will be installed, measured and calibrated. So, I completely intentionally do not use any bass at all.

Still, I did not say that my new room did not give me anything that I feel might be qualified as strange but I said that my room did not give me a lot that I feel might be qualified as strange. It means that there is something that I do not “get” now, exactly two moments that I absolutely do not have any explanation. I mention them before but now I would like highlight them.

1)      I do not know what is going on with lower knee of my Injection Chanel. In the old room the lower part of Injection worked phenomenally well. In the new room the same Injection by the same amplification do clearly portrays that the bottom part of Injection not up-to par with the rest system. In old room I closed it at 110Hz not I drive it full range. Is the bottom of the Tannoy Red is so bad? Interesting that in old room the 110Hz were more auditable then a full range in the new room, Since it all 12-13dB UNDER the referent volume level I wonder why the  Red’s bass is so much in my face now.  Were the bass in old room provided some sort of masking effect that glazed the Red’s bottom? I do not know but I would like to find any answer and it has a few consequences for Macondo configuration.

2)      The second mystery is something that made me dumbfounded. All the Macondo has at bottom is 35 inch horn. Let see, 35” = 89.8cm.  115Hz crossover point is 82cm, 110Hz crossover point is 88cm and 105Hz crossover point is 95cm. So, my upperbass horn is about 107Hz anechoicly. In the old room it was running down to 95Hz, in the new room, sitting virtually in the mid of the room it hits 140Hz. Also, it is a sealed, full tractrix, so it does not have that glowing long boom at bottom and it rolls off very fast. So, my playback has nothing under 140Hz – it shell not sound acceptable.  I am well familiar with the Macondo just with upperbass and it was in the room when upperbass was going down to 95Hz. It was NEVER sufficient. Now, in the new room it is not just sufficient140Hz but it is truly spectacular. I have been listening like like this for 2-3 weeks and sometimes I forget that I have no bass. The sound is surprisingly rich. Still, the RTA does not lie and I DO NOT have the any bass. If so, then why it sound so good and non-problematic with this absolutely surprising new level of upperbass quality?

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