jl1ny
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| Great speaker sounds terrible in my room? @tony1954 Thanks for this. That pretty much does sum it up. I repositioned the 3A’s as closely to the manufacturers guidelines and then played with micro adjustments, I’m pretty sure I have them as good as I’m gonna get with what I have. These s... | |
| Great speaker sounds terrible in my room? @oldhvymec Retiring soon brother and leaving this God forsaken state. a dedicated listening room is in my plans and down the audiophile rabbit hole I will go. Might even do the ugly chick thing too…Haha! | |
| Great speaker sounds terrible in my room? @oldhvymec I don’t have a dedicated listening room. I’m in a studio apartment and my listening area is basically my living area / kitchen so I have to keep things aesthetically pleasing and utilitarian as opposed to looking like a hi-fi shop. Th... | |
| Great speaker sounds terrible in my room? @bjesien I have them on sand filled steel monolith stands spiked into my carpet…suckers are HEAVY and I use Herbies square dots between the plates and speakers. | |
| Great speaker sounds terrible in my room? Update: I sent an email to the manufacturer and he graciously responded with a copy of their setup instructions. I’m still tweaking the positioning but boom! Game changer. I was waaayy off on positioning. The 3A’s are still a little light in the b... | |
| Great speaker sounds terrible in my room? @mapman These are the biggest monitors I’ve had in my rig (H15.7 x W12 x D13) and they have to be close to 40lbs each. My listening area is 15x12 (but the front wall actually recesses to 17ft.) The room I demo them in was a dedicated room substa... | |
| Great speaker sounds terrible in my room? @musicaddict I have a Rel T9x in my rig. I’m holding off on it while I try to get these bad boys to work on their own. | |
| Great speaker sounds terrible in my room? @fiesta75 no, no not arguing, I’m very appreciative of the support and it identified the problem…Thank you all. Placing them closer to the wall is not doable. I’ll just have to try and work around it. | |
| Great speaker sounds terrible in my room? @russ69 I’m happy with the ARC/Levinson, I’ll most likely just have to wave the white flag and sell the A3’s if I can’t get them to work their magic in my room. If they were an end-game speaker i’d definitely go down the path of upgrading compon... | |
| Great speaker sounds terrible in my room? @russ69 why would the amp & pre be an issue if I’ve had nothing but great results with every set of speakers up till this point? | |
| Great speaker sounds terrible in my room? @chayro As I’m typing this I’m listening to some Beth Hart on my ProAcs. It’s laughable how much better they sound and they are 1/2 the size, weight and less efficient than the Ref 3A’s. Something tells me it’s gonna be a long day trying to find... | |
| Great speaker sounds terrible in my room? @jasonbourne52 I’ve had the same near field set up for 2 years, utilizing the front wall is not an option due to the layout of my apartment. As I previously stated I’ve never encountered this situation before, I’ve had smaller speakers kick ass ... | |
| Great speaker sounds terrible in my room? @jond @roxy54 I have verrrry limited placement, I’ll experiment tomorrow. Thing is, at best I can move them back another 3 feet so they will still be 7ft away from the wall. These Ref 3A’s have 8” woofers, my ProAc’s have 6.5” and can rock my ro... | |
| Power regeneration - good idea? PS audio? @jumia It would depend upon your amp and regenerator…I wouldn’t plug a power sucking monster amp into a regen if it’s going to exceed the regen’s capacity. It’s my understanding that if you exceed the regen’s capacity it will switch from regen t... | |
| Power regeneration - good idea? PS audio? I just scored a Powerplant premier and put my Pre/Dac/Streamer on it. I kept the power amp and sub directly into the wall…I wasn’t expecting anything dramatic but there definitely is a noticeable improvement in space and dynamics. Nothing mind blo... |