Goldenear Triton One bass setting

dcaudio OP74 posts03-17-2020 6:33pm"Is there a CD that has good frequency tracks and use a sound meter on my iPhone to measure to get a flat response?"

I gave up trying to adjust the various sub settings by ear and used a test CD (Stereophile STPH 002-2) with 1/3-octave warble test tones and the Decibel X app on my iPhone.

Yup. Why are you so fixated on this?  Come by the house and have a listen if you like.  I have had a lot of people over, at least ten of them are members of our little community and no one ever said that the left channel sound arrived before the right.  Almost every audiophile who has heard my systems have nothing but praise.  Things like I never knew McIntosh sounded that good or I thought GE speakers were just for home theater. Never ever did anyone say there was a problem with the sound arriving at their ears  or that the sound is skewed.  If you haven’t heard the system, your criticism means nothing.  

So you are telling me that you can't hear that one speaker is EIGHT inches closer to you than the other speaker? But you can hear the difference between two interconnects?

It must be nice to have Golden Ears.  I’m so jealous.  

No need to be snarky. I'm not claiming superiority over you, so your audiophile manhood is safe.

What I am saying is that yes, I can hear when one speaker is not symmetrical to the other by several inches.  And if think you can't, you're not listening intently enough.

So don't signal me out. I bet most anyone you would care to ask in this forum would say the same thing. But hey, it's your system, so carry on............

If you think you can hear the arrival time of a speaker that is 8 inches closer to the wall than the other, then you must have the Holy Grail of ears.  You sound like someone I know that is OCD.   It’s okay if you don’t understand it, you aren’t listening to the system.  

When I had the Tritons I thought the bass integrated very well although I was fiddling with the knob quite a bit depending on the type of music I was playing. 

So the arrival time of the sound of one speaker is much greater than that of the other? I guess I'm not understanding how that works at all.

The left speaker is 8 inches closer to the back wall than the right.  It is so I can see the TV screen in the living room.  
I sent pictures of my speaker placement to Sandy Gross at GE and he said “perfect solution”. 

Why would you have one speaker closer to the back wall than the other? Please explain this.

You will never come close to a flat response in your listening room, nor would you want it. If you are looking for bass tracks to adjust your woofers on the Triton Ones, here are my recommendations on what I used on both my Triton Ones and Triton References for the tightest and cleanest bass and the proper level:

Dead Can Dance, "Spiritchaser" Listen to the first song
Kim Simmonds & Savoy Brown, "The Devil To Pay" first song Ain’t Got Nobody
Stanley Clark, "Journey To Love" First song, Silly Putty
Bob James & Earl Klugh, "Cool" First song
Grand Funk Railroad, "Closer To Home" Sins A Good Mans Brother
The Who, "Live At Leeds" Magic Bus

I'm sure others have their favorites as well.

Is there a CD that has good frequency tracks and use a sound meter on my iPhone to measure to get a flat response?

https://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_subwooferkicktest.php

Like the test says, the tracks with deeper bass should sound the same loudness as the ones with less bass, only difference should be extension.

On my Triton Ones, my left channel is set at 11 o' clock and the right one at 12 o' clock.  The reason is the left channel is very close to the back wall where the right channel is much further away.  Best bet is to play a bass track on repeat and start at the 11 position and adjust up or down until the bass is to your satisfaction.  There is no wrong way.