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Post Subject: Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/18/2010

I spent today good 5 hours listening my new playback. For somebody who do not know me it would look idiotic to listen the playback with such a huge amount of problems and do not make any efforts to correct them. Defiantly the problems are huge: the midbass become too heavy and too generic (I guess the driver got broke-in the Fs have dropped too much), the all 14 channels is not balanced with new crossovers, no fine time alignment, huge ground loop on left channel, the room is too bright (removed acoustic treatment), the many other pretty lethal problems. Still, with my clamed “listening intelligence” I knew very well what I was listening. Knowing all ingredients of my playback I know very well how and when they produce problems and I know how to interpret, deduce and to extrapolate the results I hear. I am not trying to suck my own dick in front of you but I truly know how to listen what I need to listen.

So, I was listening, thinking, sliding my chair across the carpet and was looking for the inspiration – I knew exactly what kind inspiration I was looking for. I was looking for a location, a very preside listening spot where my playback and my room would come together and would form a proper musical communication paradigm. Somebody from ancient world, I think it was Archimedes, asked for a center of support and promised in turn the Earth upside down. To me the reference sweat spot is such a center of everything in playback. What do you know – I have eventually found it. It is 11’ 7’ from MF diaphragm and it is an absolutely sensation location. It is not what might be recognized as nearfiled BUT it in a way better as it does the “distance accommodation trick” – very rarely seen effect and something that I truly craving.

Anyhow, as today I for the very first time objectively witness that my new room has attributes that would allow me to accomplish Sound the will be beyond what my old room had. The perfect location of my listening chair had found, this is a huge move forward to me. Now I need lock everything on this location and bring the Macondo to the proper calibrated level with respect to this listening location.

Romy The Cat

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