Husker looking at your system page it looks like you were in near field or close to it with good back wall reinforcement, and super nice back wall treatment. Maybe try duplicating those dimensions and then grow it out w same ratio. post pics of new room.
best Jim |
Angels of Light / Sing other people |
Califone / Heron king blues |
Talk Talk - Colour of Spring |
The Bee Gees - Timeless: The All-Time Greatest Hits |
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Supertramp - "Brother Where You Bound" |
Roger Waters - Radio KAOS ( server ) |
+1 Talk Talk, The Colour of Spring.
I note you got the album name spelled in its English form. Nice. |
I had to squint at the ipad Brian |
Floyd - The Final Cut ( server ) |
The Mastery of John Coltrane / Vol. IV "Trane's Modes" |
@tomic601
I updated photos and equip on my virtual page. Speakers are 24” from front wall, 19” from side walls, and 7’ apart. My ears are approximately 7’ from center axis.
Ronnell Bright Trio-Sam Records 2021 |
@j_husker
Jim may have other ideas, but as this *is* a large room, you might want to consider adding a subwoofer now (I believe you have 7" drivers and a bass port on the rear). To get any bass, I think you may be trying to keep the speakers close to the 'back' wall for your ports to provide that for you. With more bass energizing/pressurizing the room you might be able to get your speakers to fill in the space 'above' a subs 'sonic base' providing you a 'foundation' as they should (you have a lot of volume), and could then pull them out closer to you.
I have found soundstage is a combiniation of vertical (front to back) and horizontal (side to side) placement. With Vandersteen's (as I have), Richard has a very good setup guide to follow in getting you close, then fine tune. Doing a bit of digging, your manufacturer recommends the width/spread should be 3/4 of your listening distance. Not for your particular speakers, but may be a guide to use.
Or, try something extreme. I had someone once recommend pulling the speakers out as close to the listening position as possible, then, incrementally, move them back until the soundstage begins to form. Once you acheive that, play with width/spread and fine tune the center image. It did work, but found I was essentially placing the speakers in my room as Richard recommends in his manual anyway. But, a neat experiment. |
Here’s my take @j_husker. I’d try to get some diffusers at the first reflection point. Then maybe pull your speakers in 6" (3" each,) and possibly your listening chair.
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Neil Young "After The Gold Rush" This is from the reissue series. Great music but the SQ isn't quite what the hype says it would be. Love the album and it will get plenty of play time.
P.J. Harvey "Uh Huh Her" I got this just the other day based on recommendations from this thread. After getting my first P.J album, "To Bring you My Love", which I got due to this thread, I found a new artist to add to my collection. I really like P.J. Harvey, so, thanks guys. |
@slaw
Hey Steve, PopMarket was having a 15% off sale today, so finally picked up 3 Eels LP's (on vinyl), and also Leonard Cohen's Thanks For the Dance LP. |
i woke up to a text from Popmarket…. my vinyl life us now complete….. |
PJ - To Bring You My Love….. ( Server ) crank it up.. crunchy distortion on top of super clean…. |
@bkeske,
Brian....cool you where able to find those Eels buddy. |
Porcupine Tree - Coma Divine |
My two orders of inner sleeves from Vinyl StorageSolutions finally shipped. |
Husker - Love the room groove. Maybe a whisker of toe in and chair back another whisker |
See what I mean, Jim. That crunchy distortion on top of super clean, as you put it. That's what I was talking about a few weeks back. It's really quite a job they did on that album. Me likes it! |
@tomic601 yup, that definitely helped! Thanks for all the suggestions folks, sounding much better tonight!
Playing one of the records in my collection I know intimately-Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Soundtrack (1973 Col) and with the room dynamics coming together I am really starting to appreciate the Grado upgrade. Best cartridge I’ve tried so far in my system. |
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Husker - great news, the AC guys had to move my right speaker and monoblock - i coached them thru it…but now imaging is all honked up and no way i can move it …just yet….have to live with it for another day. |
Charles Lloyd - Tone Poem
War-World is a Ghetto
Dexter Gordon-One Flight Up |
Finishing up The Who - "Live at Leeds" 3xLP set I started a couple of nights ago. |
The cure, panic at the disco, five finger death punch, and the police.
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Welcome george 4471
The New Basement Tapes |
Jethro Tull - Stand Up, Steven Wilson remix |
Rebecca Pidgeon - Tough on Crime ( server )
aspirational goal is spin a black disc tomorrow….. |
Black Pumas - "Capitol Cuts" Recorded Live in Studio A |
John Mayall - Blues From Laurel Canyon, German pressing |
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@big_greg I love that Mayall album. I love John Mayall. My copy is a U.S. print and it's good, but I can imagine that your German pressing is very good. Please advise. That's one of my all time favorite Mayall albums.
If you are a Mayall fan I can highly recommend the 2020 release, "John Mayall and Friends". It's a two record set, priced very fair, excellent music, and just as excellent is the recording/pressing/vinyl quality. SQ is fabulous! Just outstanding and a value at the price point. |
Renaissance - illusion ( server )
++++++ anything Mayall |
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Richard Thompson - Electric ( server ) |
RT - The Old Kit Bag ( server ) This got me back into RT after a long hiatus….
Fading, last music for the eve… |
Joel, I was disappointed by the John Mayall album. Not because of the content, but it was advertised as NM- by the seller, who had a 100% Discogs rating, but played more VG - VG+. It was clearly visually graded, because it did look perfect, but there was quite a bit of surface noise on side 1, side 2 was a lot better. I think it would have sounded great had it not been so worn though. |
My copy of Blues From Laurel Canyon plays exactly as you described of yours. I also bought it as NM/M- in order to replace my original and very thrashed/unplayable copy. Maybe that's just the way they were pressed and the quality of the vinyl they used. Awesome music, too bad we have to suffer through vinyl noise on an otherwise perfectly clean looking record. |
Just arrived, and had to play hooky from work and spin it….
Ray Brown Trio - Soular Energy. Concord 1985.
Just fantastic shape, NM. Pricy, but worth it. |
Another new arrival….
Monty Alexander / Ray Brown / Herb Ellis - Trio. Concord 1981
Very very nice. |
congrats ! The Vinyl Truants….. love it |
The Green Pajamas -- "Phantom Lake: Northern Gothic 3"
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James McMurtry -- "The Horses and the Hounds"
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The Gun Club -- "Fire of Love" |
The last of my new arrivals today….
Monty Alexander / Ray Brown / Herb Ellis with special guest John Frigo - Triple Treat II. Concord 1988
Recorded live at the Lao, Santa Monica, CA 1987 |
