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In the Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat?
Post Subject: A semi-temporary solution for now.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 9/26/2017
After a few agonizing days I think a have decided for a provisional solution.  Listening and thinking about options on a table and my current desire to invest time and resources I went with 6+2 direction.

 
I have order 4 separate relatively-small sealed boxes for Vitavox 15. They will be two per side midbass channels. I will not drive the Vitavoxes all the way down and will be cutting them most likely with second order at 60-70Hz at the bottom, so I can save some space on midbass enclosure and make instead the midbass time aligned. At the bottom, probably around 40Hz it will be an array of 6 sunspeaks. This trains never left the station… Bothe channels will be driver from Milq LF section and will use passive filtration. I do not think that 6 sunspeaks. Will be enough to deal with my current room but I am planning to live it for now. It will be listenable and will make the Vitavoxes to “decay slower”. The key would be to play with crossover separately for right and left channel to dial very accurately the room. I also would like to experiment a bit with what I call “distributed channel” where individual transduces will nave own enclosures and can play individual timing games. In a past I did play with lower MF channels this game and it was very powerful and it allow to spin a bit driver and to get slightly different phasing. I never did it with multiple midbasses but it should work the same +  I can located the individual midbasses incisures at different locations. Warn you that this is dirty trick and if very oppose the idea to do it as in my view a playbacks should strictly be time-aligned. What I would like to learn is the cost-benefit ratio from putting midbass in “distributed mis-alignment” vs having a non-resolvable extra 8-10dB in response. Let see how it goes… 
 
I kind a sick not to have a playback operational. The 6+2 solution with passive filtration will give some option to play it “for now” let see how I will feel about it with time. I do not need to make any big sacrifices to set it us as I have everything, so let put it in use and see what I will end up. I might add an extra 2 sunspeaks if I will be “almost there” or will go for new boxes with 10 sunspeaks that most likely will do the job. Let see how it drifts…

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