That would be a positive bias. I prefer to listen to music in the comfort of my own space for many reasons. It may well influence how I perceive the sound, I want to like it and be happy with it because I know that the live experience, most of the time, would not be as pleasurable for me.
I suppose I should ask Scott W. for clearance to muck up the thread a little, JC seems on board?
I have RCA fed powered sub centrally between two floor standers (1"x1, 6.5"x2) and I find the LR position and depth position of the sub to be critical and surprisingly so for good and coherent overall sound and imaging.
The sub has level and LP controls and I find these adjustments to be critical and according to the mastering of the programme.
The other usage of these controls is deliberate bass remastering of tracks according to taste....and circumstance etc.
So, according to my experience I am curious that such corner placement does not 'unbalance' the stereo experience ?.
If the music purpose is general background music then I suppose it is not so important, for 3D hi-fi imaging I expect the imbalances would be a nuisance.
Tell us what you find longer term ?.
Dan.
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I have two u-frame subs positioned near my mains and have used delay to get them more time coherent. My plan was to use the IB for the bottom octave to take the load off the u-frames, I don't like boost and excursion if I can help it. I haven't got them all going together yet, but have been pleasantly surprised using the IB below ~100Hz. It's not as house and neighbour friendly as the OBs though 🙂
That would mean a stool for each of my feet in my set-up 😀
How do you fight room modes doing that?
Wire bypasses will not do?
What would be best....I do have a 18gauge air core inductor I could strip but what would be best to start with?
No because the ferrites are still 'in circuit' despite short circuit wires across them.
A stripped strand of Cat5 folded back on itself and twisted......long enough to make two links that replace the ferrite links.
Make the links long enough to come vertically up off the board 15/20mm or so and loop over and go vertically back down to the other pad....this looping is for later experiments/tweaking.
Bare Cat5 strand (24AWG/0.51mm) doubled back versus enamelled 24AWG doubled back will make a fine difference......if you have suitable enameled wire preferrably use that, diameter is not critical except for physical size restraints....two 18 AWG (1.0mm) wires might not fit into the pcb holes.
24AWG links will not present as any bottleneck but will cause a different sound to that of the ferrites and let the amp 'open up' with different tonal and dynamic characters.
Once the AC power input is sorted we will go to the other end of the amp.
Dan.
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Ok I misunderstood.......I was assuming the ferrite were out and the wire was no good.
I’ll add 24awg magnet wire to the list
I’ll add 24awg magnet wire to the list
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You need only 200mm or so, OTOH the rest of a small reel would be useful for interconnects etc.....that's the wire I use and you have heard.
I would bypass/remove those Molex pin connectors at speaker terminals first and solder the output wires directly to the speaker terminals. It is incredible that Parasound uses such a tiny connector joint for speaker output.
It looks pretty good and really a value (almost the same price as a single Metcal tip). The English in the writeup is pretty challenged but I'm sure its pretty obvious how to operate when you use it. Any complaints now that you have some experience with it?
Don't, leave them alone those are zobel, just directly solder the wires to the binding posts.
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