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Yesterday I retune and recalibrated the whole Macondo and Milqs, tubes, drives, horns, angles, timing… everything. The snapshot or fully calibrated Macondo that I made in the page 14 of this thread was phenomenal help. I think everyone who runs multichannel multi-amp shall have something like this.

http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Site_Images/MacondoCalibration.jpg

The sound as now is fine, I do think that I will be keep playing with some critical fine-positioning but the basic sound as not is more or less acceptable. I discovered that there were two major factors that fixed the problems I reported before.

First it was the large ceiling trunk that I removed as Amy wanted to have direct lights under the ceiling to highlight her carpet. The lights went up and the large 6 foot long and 1.5 foot diameter fiberglass barrel went down. The barrel, essentially large tube trap, was hanging at the delta of cathedral ceiling and it turn out to be hugely effective. I never had my room without it so, I did not expect that it will be so valuable. Now I need to put some kind of equivalent acoustic treatments at the same location. I was trying to put all fiberglass tube in there but Amy came to me and asked: “How temporary it is”. I am sure I will come up with something pretty and functional; I need a décor inspiration however…

Another interesting factor of the hazy and imbalanced sound that had no body was that fact that my Fundamental Channels were running for 5.5dB and 7dB lower. I know the people who do not know how Macondo works would not get it but it is what it is. The Fundamental Channels do not produce as much sound but they rather act as room coupler, setting the sound’s weight in the room.

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