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In the Thread: Lamm ML2.0 & Lamhorn/AER
Post Subject: Do your home work.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/18/2013
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 HookEm wrote:
But, although it seems things are moving in a good direction, the overall presentation still seems a bit dry (not as fluid as my head tells me it should be).
HookEm,

it was a bit is very generic comment that does not express anything definitive. A single driver speaker has to sound too dry, that is how they all sound even if the power by generator from Hoover Hydroelectric station. The moist in sound comes with lower octaves filing the room in certain way but it is impossible with single driver speaker unless you calibrate your yellow driver at 85dB sensitively and then use the lower octaves accordingly. The makers of yellow drivers mark them as over 100dB sensitive but forget to tell that it is over I would say 500Hz.

Anyhow, the dry statement is insufficient information and it mien be anything. Your Norah Jones type music has not a lot of complexity and from some perspective all of it has to be dry… because it is dry. When I accidently step on my Cat’s tail she screams and that is pretty much what you listening. How important that the Cat’s scream would be dry or moist?

You did ask proper questions, however. What you need to do now in your fight with “dryness” is to identify if it is the normal topological yellow driver dryness or it is the normal untreated room dryness. A person with some experience would very easy to say but if you are not “tune” to it then it might be confusing. So what you need is to do a simple test. Bring 2 friends home; a wife with adult kid would do as well. Sit in your listening chair, close your eyes and list your music. Note the normal level of dryness that you recognize. Then let your friend to take some kind of fizzy large bed cover and holding it in their hands to build some kind of roof above you.  Do not let the “roof” or “screen” to intersect the direct line of sign between your ears and speakers, keep the screen let say 3-4 feet above your head (put your friend on stools). With some physical efforts they can move the screen on the sides. What you need to pay attention is not if “the sound become better” but only to the fact of the amount the dryness that you recognize in sound will change. That type of “targeted listening” also requires some experience but I think you can do it. If you do detect that the dryness will be gone or substantial minimized than it would indicate that it was coming from your room, something that I highly suspect.
 
Yes, one more thing, very important. If you use your wife for the screen holding then do not forget to buy her a pearl necklace after the experiment. This will lubricate the sound in your listening room and make it less dry and abrasive. You will see, the next week she will ask you to make more audio experiments… :-)

The Cat

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