For Magnepans try the "Rooze" comfiguration

Actually, this is the begining of the post.

>http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/MUG/messages/77917.html

Rooze has long been on the cutting edge. Most of the things society is just beginning to accept, Rooze has left behind as he continues to grow!

An audiophile guru if ever there was one!

This is the first time I wish I had my Maggie 1.6 since I sold them a few years back.

Yes indeed Rooze is thinking outside the box...

Yep, just goes to show ya...you don't have to own a box to think outside of one.

Dave

Yes!

Colorless reverberation is amazing. I don't understand it but know it when I hear it.

Several years ago,I heard a speaker from Cambridge Soundworks that had dual tweeter and midrange drivers firing front and back.Henry Kloss got where he got without my imput. That said,the speaker was close(sorry) to being up to the standards of his trail blazing work.

I'm sorry he did not live long enough to have enough revisions to get it right(aside from the other reasons to wish someone a longer life.) If anyone could have brought Manfred Schroeder's theory to a box speaker application it would have been Kloss.

Does Rooze rhyme with Bose?

Does Rooze rhyme with Ruse. I hope not.

Bose 901 revisited. I'm not sure what turning them around does since they radiate both ways.

You can get some funny effects from Maggies. Try setting them up in normal manner, but then sitting directly in between the speakers. If you get your head in exactly the right spot it sounds like headphones.

The last time I heard 901's was at a friends apartment before my audio days. If 901's sound anything like the Rooze maggie setup I defintly need to buy a pair of 901's.

The best sound I have gotten out the MMG's before this was to put them in the corner of very hard room(hardwoods floors, no furniture)so that behind the speakers it goes back into a point which is the room's corner. That was great, this is incredable. If you have Maggies I encourage you to give it a try and then go to AA and thank Rooze.

((chuckles at Nrenter's response))

Is this a joke?

As a long time Magneplanar fan, this is a little out there for me.

It would be very interesting to hear of other experiences if any of you are inclined to experiment.

What happens to the bass? In my experience, Magneplanars can have very good bass, but for me this has only happened with my back near the wall in front of the speakers and behind my chair.

Well I'm both pleased and relieved that it's working so well for others.
Rooze rhymes with ruse and also my last name, so just a little play on words to keep people guessing.
But this is not a joke, it's a very serious re-alignment of listening priorities. The 'new' setup does not fare well under the typical audiophile scrutiny that we typically apply to any new tweak, component or parameter change. It has some deficiencies when we start to think about the usual audiophile checks and balances, but if we're just interested in enjoying music then the presentation is hard to beat.
I won't get into the specifics, since I'd just be repeating myself, but anyone with the time and inclination should give this a try. I haven't had much time to optimize speaker/chair position for the new setup, so I suspect there is a lot more performance to be had from the idea.

I wasn't aware of the Bose 901 principal of operation before trying this, but from what I've learned since, doesn't the Bose method have drivers firing into the front wall (behind the speaker), and drivers firing at the listener? That would tell me that there are the usual issues with transparency, since there are still direct-firing drivers, and also an issue with time-alignment, since the distance from the rear-firing drivers to the front wall is a variable. Again, I know very little about the Bose method so I may have this completely wrong.

All I can say about the 'maggie method' is that there are no direct firing drivers, all the sound is reflected. One would expect the sound to be diffuse, but it isn't. One would expect room influences and reflections to be more influential, but they are not. You hear significantly less of the room affecting the sound negatively.

Well, I'm not trying to sell you anything other than a dose of madness, and even that is free if you call with your credit card in the next 24 hours.

Rooze.

Rooze...Maggies emit sound equally in both directions, with opposite phase. Turning them around doesn't change much...just a little because the magnets are in the way on one side. Bose 901s had eight little FR drivers aimed at the wall, and one at the listener.

As I noted in an AA posting, I think that the main thing you have done is pull the darned things out nine feet. IMHO, best results are achieved with the Maggies at 40 percent of the room length, and a 40 foot room length is nice. Your 9 feet would satisfy my rule in a 23 foot room.

El,

I'm not sure that the 9' is key. Remember that I'm not listening to the rear wave, I'm looking between the speakers and listening to a soundstage that is formed against the wall that the front of the speakers are firing into. The 9' dimension is not critical. What is critical is that the space behind the speaker has sufficient room for a seat, with at least 5' between the seat and the back of the speaker. So 6' or 7' is important to make this work, but not necessarily 9'. More would be better I think, and I may experiment with taking the speakers out into the room.
As you mentioned, I'm not going to win any 'best home decor' competition, but who cares what the house looks like so long as the music rocks!!

Rooze...As I understand your setup, your chair is about 15 feet from the reflecting wall, and the speakers are about 9 feet from the wall. So the speakers are between you and the wall. In this situation you will hear more than 50 percent of the sound directly from the backsides of the Maggies.

Eldartford,

This isn't the case, and I see the confusion.

The room is a few inches short of 28' wide. The speakers are 9' from the wall behind them, so they're firing across 19' onto the wall opposite. I'm sitting behind the speaker, looking through the speaker at the opposite wall which is approx. 25' away. I'm looking at the rear of the speaker, which is just around 5' away from me. Common sense suggests that the sound I hear will be from the rear of the speaker, just a few feet away. But this isn't how it works. The speakers appear not to have any sound coming from them at all. The soundstage forms on the wall which is 25' away from me. The depth of the stage is somewhere around 10-12'.
I will try to sketch out this arrangement tomorrow, but there is a sketch on the asylum that details what I am talking about quite well.
To describe this in words makes little sense, you have to hear it for yourself.

Rooze

Rooze...I saw several diagrams on AA, and they just confused me.

I think I know now what you are saying. You are most certainly hearing sound directly from the speakers, but somehow that sound is being combined with the reflected sound in such a way that its origin is obscured, and the total sound seems to come from elsewhere as you report. I wish I had a room unencumbered with furniture to try your setup.

Of course good stereo speakers will also disappear when you play a monaural signal, and the sound will seem to come from empty space between the speakers.

Rooze:

I'm curious.Are both walls drywall? I'm guessing you reversed the left-right wiring?

Rooze

I noticed the pictures of your listening room from before.

Perhaps you can post a photo of the new Rooze configuration for us to see?

Also, do you have any experience with Maggies having better bass when your back, as listener, is up against the wall?

If so, what happens to the bass when you are out in the middle, floating in this direct/reflected sea of sound?

Still curious, but confused.

Folks,
Below is a link to a sketch of the arrangement.
Again, looking at the sketch one would expect the sound to emerge from the rear of the speaker. If you position yourself carefully in both a lateral and longitudinal direction, the sound vanishes from the rear of the speaker and the stage forms against the wall at the opposite end of the room. It's a weird effect that takes a second or two to register. Eldartford, in many ways it sounds like the monaural affect that you mentioned, but mostly because the sound 'hangs in a space' against the back wall and does not appear to have a source.
The soundstage has all of the aspects of a 'normal' stereo soundstage, without the speakers! It has incredible depth, width and height - in a natural unbloated sense. It has accurate image placement, though not as tightly rendered as with the conventional setup. What makes it so out of the ordinary is the apparant absence of normal room anomalies such as bass boominess or slap echo. It sounds transparent and natural - musical, to put it another way.

Of course, the whole arrangement is not 'optimized' for this presentation. The only thing being moved from the conventional setup is the chair. I suspect that if one were able to optimize fully, without constraints on speaker/chair positions, then the sound could be amazing.

Here goes http://www.newaudiosociety.com/new-seat.jpg

Rooze...The link works.

Here is an idea...Angle the speakers a bit more and/or move your chair up so that the Maggies are Edge-on to the listener. Edge-on would be a null (invisible) orientation for a dipole speaker, and would explain what you hear.

Please report back.

Rooze

Looking at your diagram with the conventional setup, I would have predicted thin bass?

Maybe its just me, or maybe I like boomier bass than most panel fans, but I always preferred the sound with my listening chair pushed up against the rear wall. Otherwise, things always sounded a bit thin to me.

This has been true with MG1Bs, MGIIs, MGIIIs, and my latest Typmani IVas.

Therefore, would appreciate any thoughts on this for both the traditional orientation and how this might change in the Rooze configuration.

Also, when seated in the Rooze configuration, does this reverse left and right?

For proper imaging "projected" against the new front wall, do you switch left and right?