You should get a very defined center image from any quality dynamic speaker system, monitor or full range floor stander. With the human voice you should not be hearing a sound that causes you the feel the singers mouth is as big as the distance between the speakers (a fault of some panel speakers). If your losing focus it could be due to speaker placement issues (usually too much side wall reflections, so i would recommend that you change the axis of the speaker from pointing straight ahead to crossing the axis of the speakers at a point in front of the listener and see if that makes a difference. It could also be that the speakers are too far apart - try moving them closer together and see if that makes a difference. This is not an issue of "compression". Incidentially, i'm not familar with either of your speaker systems.
Does a good monitor produce a compressed sound?
I swap my speaker from Axiom M22ti (monitor) to Silverline Panatella II (Floor standing). My system is Audio Electronic Supply SE-1 Amp with volume control and CAL Icon 2 CD player.
The first thing I notice when properly setting up the speaker is that the obvious center focus (i.e. vocal) from the Axiom smears out to between the speaker (smearing like a zone rather one point of center focus) and the sound opens up quite a lot. Also it sounds much less harsh than the Axiom. Here is the question:
1. As the Axiom is the best monitor so far I have had so I am not sure if the compressed sound I heard is a typical for a monitor (shouldn't be). To put it another way, does monitor pruduce more compressed sound compared to a floor standing speaker of the same range?
2. Does the floor standing usually smearing the spot on center focus out? I don't think it's a bad thing for me, just different.
3. For the harsh on the Axiom, it may be not fair to compair the Axiom with the Panatell as it's not the same level. What curious me is that is this the best I can get out from the speaker or if it's b/c not enough burning in? I have it for 6 months and use it probably over the straight 3 months period, so I think it should be broken in by now.
Any comment on this?
Thanks,
Ake
The first thing I notice when properly setting up the speaker is that the obvious center focus (i.e. vocal) from the Axiom smears out to between the speaker (smearing like a zone rather one point of center focus) and the sound opens up quite a lot. Also it sounds much less harsh than the Axiom. Here is the question:
1. As the Axiom is the best monitor so far I have had so I am not sure if the compressed sound I heard is a typical for a monitor (shouldn't be). To put it another way, does monitor pruduce more compressed sound compared to a floor standing speaker of the same range?
2. Does the floor standing usually smearing the spot on center focus out? I don't think it's a bad thing for me, just different.
3. For the harsh on the Axiom, it may be not fair to compair the Axiom with the Panatell as it's not the same level. What curious me is that is this the best I can get out from the speaker or if it's b/c not enough burning in? I have it for 6 months and use it probably over the straight 3 months period, so I think it should be broken in by now.
Any comment on this?
Thanks,
Ake
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