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Post Subject: Evolution of my rooms sound quality.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/19/2016
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A local audio friend sent me a few days back a feedback
after visiting my new listening room:
“When we used to listen to music at your Woburn house I
could come home and still enjoy my playback. But listening to playback at the
Boxwood house was so much like Marlborough street it messed up my mind with
home playback.”
I disagree with my fend comment and I feel that sound I am
getting in my new listening room not even remotely where is I would like it to
be. This, however made me to think about the evolution of my sound.
The best sound I ever had with my Boston small listening
rooms was a short two weeks in 1999 when I was running modified AvantGard Trio
and driving it with Lamm SS amps. Yep, it was not near a sane configuration and
one would notice in there a zillion problems with sound but it was one of the experiments
after which my AvantGards accidently landed to DPoLS and it make everything sound
very much beyond from what might be expected from audio. It was so hypnotizing that
I took two days off and just was sitting in my room not believing that it might
be happened. Considering that I do consulting and at that time billed $125 per
you understand that my voluntary withhold from work cost me a lot of money.
Still, it was the happiest time in my audio life as I got an audio reverence
that seldom, if ever, come to a person life. In two weeks or so I moved slightly
AvantGard and the sound got destroyed. I could write 300 pages book of what I
heard during those 10 or so days but there are very few people in audio who
would understand it or will be able to relate to it. To the rest of my living
in that Boston listening room it was OK sound with many interesting hi-endish tricks,
very good but not extraordinary.
The next best sound I have was end of December 2011. It was
my first year I made up my suburbia listening room and I spent good 6 months to
work on the room and on the playback. The sound was spectacular. It was not
even closed to what I had when I had AvantGards at DPoLS (it was probably 10%
of it). Still, in context of no DPoLS it was stunningly good sound. I was so impressed
and so pound then that I even send invitation to many bizarre and adversary people
from my past (Lamm, and a few alike),
inviting them to my listening room and witness “what might be done”. In a few
months Amy moved with me and she is in a way destroyed the sound with her
decoration efforts and the sound in my Woburn listening room never was “great”
after the winter of 2011.
In my current new suburban listening room I am nowhere near
the sound I was able to get in Woburn or in Boston. I do think that the room
that I have here is way friendlier then Woburn room and the space sound VERY complimentary.
The playback is not there and the LF region is not there. I am juts learning
now how to configure my time-window to reject from my system pulse response the
screams of my twins. As I have some time I will finish the Macondo setup and calibration
and I will see where it will bring me. I
have some advanced ideas for this installation that I am also willing to try,
so it might be interesting where I will lend. The new room has also much better
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