Cornwall iv

@james633 ,

While the Lyngdorf has made every speaker I’ve hooked up to it sound way better with Room Perfect it has not been the case with the Cornwalls….. so far. I haven’t given up but so far it robs most of the bass and a good portion of the Cornwalls top notch dynamics. They sound better uncorrected, more engaging which has not been the case with any other speaker I e tried with the 2 Lyngdorf’s I’ve owned. The subs do blend very well. Currently running the Cornwalls full range and bringing the subs in at 40hz.

@james633 ,

I think you are on to something with the high pass. I haven’t ran room perfect again yet but set my crossover at 60hz both the subs and the speakers. Sounds better for sure and more dynamic. Gonna enjoy it that way till tomorrow and re run the room correction and see what that does. Sorry to hear about your JL sub. They will fix anything to do with a V1 Fathom for $450. I sent the amp in and they replaced a bunch of caps with the V2 caps and sent it back within 2 weeks. It sounds better than it ever did now. 
 

The guy I bought them from gave me a room sweep printout and they started falling off the shelf at 55hz a little bit so I think 60 is good. May play with that some more. 

I definitely noticed an uptick in the mid bass speed when I applied the crossover.  Very good improvement indeed. I need to get the wife and kid the hell away from me for a weekend so I can experiment!! lol. Prob not gonna happen anytime soon. Daddy daughter dance with my second grader Saturday night. Haha. 

Wow that sucks about your experience with JL! I had 10 years of trouble free service out of mine. Only had it back for a few months after the recap of the amp. Hoping it’s good to go for a while but yeah with your experience I would be done with them as well. 

Thanks for that James. 
 

While not textbook does not look too bad from the measurements I can understand. 

I’m thinking I may pull the trigger on a used pair soon. Maybe tomorrow if the guy ever messages me back. I was looking for measurements on them but could not find anything. I’m not a measurement stickler but don’t want something that measures ridiculous either. I’m mostly Acoustic Rock, Metal, classic Rock, Hank Jr type country, and some reggae. From what I’ve read sounds like they could be the ticket. Not unhappy with my Focals but miss the dynamics of my Double Impacts. Thinking these may have even better dynamics and possibly a better tone. Would love some higher end Focals but they aren’t exactly giving them away. If the Marketplace guy gets back with me I’m hoping I can hear them before purchase. 
 

Are you still happy with your La Scalas? 

Pulled the trigger on the 1 year old Cornwalls. Perfect condition. I think they are outstanding looking with the walnut but ymmv. They sounded really really good at the sellers house. He had a real nice Ayon tube setup. Super dynamic and waaay smoother and layered than I expected. Really nice tone. I was ready to pull the trigger on some Paradigm S6 v.3 and the local seller messaged me back about the Cornwalls and we agreed on a price I think was fair for both of us. 
 

Way different presentation from my Focals and it seems like what I’m looking for although I love me some Focal. Using a Lyngdorf 3400. Even before room correction they sound super powerful and no fatigue. Gonna run room correction and bring in the subs tonight. 

I will say they are nothing like the Chorus 2 I had. Those could peel the paint off the wall without judicious use of EQ. My wife described these as warm and juicy sounding. Also pointed out how good the vocals were and I agree. I could not even get her to sit and listen to my Focals which I quite like. She kept asking to hear different songs on these. Maybe not perfect in an audiophile sense although I can't pinpoint what's missing in that respect, but I don't listen to the normal audiophile fare. The guy I did bought these from had a frequency response graph he measured in his room and it was very flat which surprised me. 

Mine came with all the damping done and also lined with NoRez. Binding posts also upgraded. 

Well they have opened up substantially over the past few days. They are in the basement so I can leave them playing 24/7 at a pretty good volume. They have substantially more bass now than when I got them. Leads me to believe they were not fully broken in. Snare has more snap and more articulate mid bass as well. Really liking these so far. 
Running Room Perfect on the Lyngdorf is still giving poor results. These and 1 other speaker I’ve had issues with it normally makes a huge difference for the better. Just sucks the life out of them, I don’t get it. Really with the directionality of the horns I’m not feeling like it necessarily needs any dsp. With that being the case I may start looking at a nice tube integrated. Any suggestions on some good ones to start looking at would be appreciated. So far in my list is Octave and Ayon. 

Also going to email Lyngdorf and see if they have any comments on why the crappy results 

Ok I’m talking to myself probably but I’m excited 😆! I factory reset the Lyngdorf and started from scratch. No idea why this would have anything to do with it but I do know I’m the 2nd owner and you can get online and do all kinds of stuff to the unit. Not sure what the previous owner did. 

Anyway, after the factory reset and all new speaker setup etc I ran room perfect again…….. it’s completely night and day and BADASS! Happy guy now. 
 

I allowed whatever factory default allows for bandwidth correction. Not sure what that is and I’m not sure you can change that. I’ve never got on the web page and messed around with the advanced settings. It does not show what changes it makes on the unit display only a status that shows percent correction. I think what is does really well is time align everything. I left the default crossover which should be 80hz on the mains and sub. Might play with the crossover point and do another set of measurements.