. . . A/Bing chairs is easier than other A/Bs I have attempted to do.
Anyway, I didn’t use my steel folding chair from the garage because it sits to high. I have another folding chair (plastic back and bottom) that I cut the legs shorter to get my ears at tweeter level. It was quite uncomfortable.
I’ve always admitted to not having great hearing, probably due to 28 years of my adult life working on airplanes with less than adequate hearing protection in my second to last career, and I have often thought that maybe I have been wasting my money and time pursuing something that I may never be able to hear anyway. But there is a difference in my small flawed listening room between the sonic presentation in a small folding chair which is totally obscured by my body and a soft upholstered high backed chair that my body does not obscure when I am seated in it.
I don’t have a great vocabulary for describing what I hear or don’t hear, but the best way I can describe it for now is that in the small low backed folding chair there seems to be more air, or if not that, maybe the air sounds cleaner. If that makes sense. However (and this part I am not sure about yet, so I guess I will have to go back to the soft upholstered chair for further listening) on some CDs vocals may sound a bit unfavorably brighter in the small chair. I have no doubt that my room needs more absorption, and I am kind of wondering if the soft upholstered high backed chair was providing a bit of that.
I listened to a variety of music this afternoon, and the MFSL Supertramp/Crime Of The Century (that I started with to warm things up with) sounded almost palatable for a few songs, but I was fatigued by it before it was through. Richard And Linda Thomson/Shoot Out The Lights leaped out with vibrancy plus texture. But I’d need to go back and listen to the entire CD while seated in the high backed upholstered chair, because as I remember, I was quite impressed and surprised by the SQ of that old CD the last time I heard it in my regular chair. I just bought another CD on ebay: Happy Coat by Shota Osabe Piano Trio, and I liked it the first time I heard it yesterday, and this afternoon I think maybe I liked it more . . . but I am not sure. I followed that with Emmylou Harris/Live At The Ryman, which I usually really like, but today, after Happy Coat, Emmylou’s voice sounded a tad bright. It had not struck me that way before.
One thing I am sure about is that sitting in that folding chair for hours at a time is, at best, an uncomfortable experience. For $99 I think I am going to buy the low backed Poanga Chair from IKEA to continue this experiment with. Worst case scenario is that I will have another chair to put somewhere in the house.