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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2016 23:43:56 GMT
Sounds like a serious upgrade Martin, shows how much rooms can make a difference  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 13, 2016 12:52:19 GMT
Makes me think I have to look my room over !
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Post by Sovereign on Nov 13, 2016 14:11:56 GMT
Nice one Martin.
I've been kind of been upgrading my Hifi room here. Part of that has been to play around with the acoustics of the room, I put some very heavy curtains behind the speakers and it was literally a revelation! I guess more so with open baffles. I hadn't realised how much of the treble and midrange was firing backwards and reflecting off the back walls, and smearing the image. I cannot begin to tell you how well my speakers image now, I have never heard anything like it, and the tone and detail is staggering.
I'll have to start a thread.
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Post by julesd68 on Nov 13, 2016 14:58:43 GMT
Very impressive Martin! I'm presuming the music room was your priority ??  |
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Post by MartinT on Nov 13, 2016 15:19:41 GMT
I hadn't realised how much of the treble and midrange was firing backwards and reflecting off the back walls, and smearing the image. I cannot begin to tell you how well my speakers image now, I have never heard anything like it, and the tone and detail is staggering. I'll have to start a thread. Please do, James. I'm still amazed at the contribution of things like curtains. |
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Post by MartinT on Nov 13, 2016 15:20:34 GMT
I'm presuming the music room was your priority ?? Ssh! Don't say that too loudly! I've fitted it in with all manner of other stuff. |
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Post by brian2957 on Nov 13, 2016 17:05:35 GMT
There's some nice tips here regarding curtains guys . I have glass doors to the side of one of my speakers and I think I could be doing with putting something at the back of them . I'll have to see the wifes reaction if I suggest putting curtains over the glass doors when I'm in the room  |
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Post by jandl100 on Nov 13, 2016 17:16:18 GMT
We should have a long running poll to see how many divorces this thread results in.  |
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Post by MartinT on Nov 13, 2016 17:21:37 GMT
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Post by brian2957 on Nov 13, 2016 17:29:40 GMT
We should have a long running poll to see how many divorces this thread results in. Mmmm... Hah mate if she says no then it's no....maybe |
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Post by MartinT on Nov 14, 2016 21:34:48 GMT
Ok, the phono gear has had 24 hours to warm up and come on song. I'm glad to say that the turntable survived the moving experience, checked out fine and sounds great. I can return to being truly format agnostic again and spent this evening playing a mix of CDs and LPs (a friend of Izzy's said "look at all those vinyls" - aaargh!).
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Post by MartinT on Nov 15, 2016 18:38:35 GMT
Back to the question of amplifier power. You may recall that, some months back, I had started wondering if I had enough power in my system as I could detect some harshness in choral peaks in one of my all-time favourite discs: the Duruflé Requiem by Shaw and the Atlanta SO on Telarc. This is a desert island disc for me and it's important that I can hear detail in the choral crescendos, but it's a system breaker and one of the most severe tests of a system I know. The dynamic peaks are amazing while the extreme deep organ pedal bass really gets the air moving. I had begun looking for a cheap but powerful amp with which to make comparisons, believing that the Belles was running out of steam. I was wrong. There would have been no other way to know it but it turned out to be a harshness due to the old room. The Belles can deliver 200Wpc into 4 ohms with amazing peak current delivery, just what the dual-woofer Ushers need. It certainly doesn't run out of steam in the new room, and any remaining harshness seems to be red book limitations as no such limits exist on my few choral SACDs. I'm pretty sure, after giving it a bit of a workout, that there is good headroom and I can load up the room before the amp will run out of power. So questions around the amp have been settled in my mind due to a much more revealing room than before.  |
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Post by ChrisB on Nov 15, 2016 18:53:43 GMT
I was going to ask you about this - whether the new amp can be made to run out of steam in the bigger room. That's sorted then.
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 17, 2016 17:54:27 GMT
You kept the ceiling.....
Best I think
What reasons ?
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Post by MartinT on Nov 17, 2016 20:58:30 GMT
Much too difficult to contemplate getting it done any time soon. For now, I'm very pleased with the results so the idea is shelved.
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Post by MartinT on Nov 17, 2016 21:04:29 GMT
System rack now fully rebuilt. I've put the Pass power supply on an old Roksan support that I had forgotten I had, to the left of the main rack. I removed the bottom spikes and put threaded RDC2 Cones in their place, with the PSU itself on Black Ravioli. The main rack is on RDC1 Cones with each component on Black Ravioli except for the turntable, which is on sorbothane pucks. The SACD player and turntable are on Electric Beach S1NX shelves.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2016 21:04:30 GMT
IME rooms with lower ceilings have sounded better, The two I've had with double-height ceilings have been sonic disasters with no bass and little coherence. Besides, the current one looks great!
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Post by MartinT on Nov 17, 2016 21:05:24 GMT
I think I've come around to it, Andrew. For whatever reasons, the room sounds mighty good right now.
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Post by Sovereign on Nov 17, 2016 22:21:01 GMT
Sounds like all good news to me , sit back and keep the music rolling on
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 18, 2016 8:41:57 GMT
My guess is the room will sound better with a ceiling. There is also the ability to store loads of crap upstairs |
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