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Toe in is crucial

I’m like the rest of us, obsessing about the smallest tweaks in power supplies, USB cables, cable risers, room acoustics, etc. But an underrated (or discussed) speaker tweak is toe in.

in my system (SF Amati, Mc components, Cardas, Weiss) adjusting speaker toe in by as little as ¼ inch has greater impact on SQ than many cable and other tweaks I’ve made at the tail end of refinement. The impact (and trade off) on sound stage, imaging, and treble presentation, by the smallest adjustments is profound.

I wasn’t quite satisfied with my system tonight—a little too forward; a narrower soundstage than I like. A ¼ inch toe in adjustment took me from hifi to the concert.

Not sure if others have experienced this, but thought I’d share.

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I currently have a (broken in) loaner pair of SF Amanti G5’s and after they set them up as they were instructed to, there was no depth and and the top end was muted. They said that they took a 12 hour course on how to set them up. After they left, I spent a couple of hours moving the G5’s around and now there is a soundstage and some depth.Still don’t have wife approval yet to spend that kind of money, but it’s looking like she’s going to give in. At least I'll still have the painters tape to use as guide lines when the new pair comes.😀

 

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