After nearly 20 years, I left Magnepan and went ProAc

I think I may have found the most ideal placement in my less than ideal room. I went with a diagnal placement and the soundstage exploded. As well, the response is much smoother. Not perfect, but much better. It is so much better than the short or long wall configurations that’s it’s not even a contest in my room. I’m able to get a finely tuned and focused center image with much better timbre and overall tonality this way. While I still am not getting 100% out of them, I can finally hear what led me to take the plunge on them in the first place.

Now instead of feeling disheartened, I can now focus on racking some hours on them. I’m a little over 200 hours of non stop playing. I listened to Charles Mingus and was delighted. I can’t wait till I hear them at beyond 500 hours and months down the road once they have "matured". They have a certain delicacy, and refinement that even a Maggie fan should hear. They are more expensive than Maggie’s, but they sound it too. There is a certain magic of Maggie’s, but these proacs show that there are other wizards out there designing speakers. Maggie’s are a gateway for a lot of us into high quality sound, many of us start off with them, because of their incredible value, i get it. But you owe it to yourself tombe opened minded and to understand that they are not the be all and all, just because they were your first love.

My Proac Studio 140MK II are in diagnal placement too the right speaker is closer to me than the left one it’s a very odd configuration but this is the best "sweet spote" I could find in my room the soundstage is huge and the sound is very smooth and transparent ,when I put them first at the classic triangle configuration to me with a slight toe in the soundstage is narrow and the sound became muddy and aggressive.
Very strange indeeded.

Don’t worry after long break in and mooving them to a bigger space your Proac will be amazing.be patient !

@audiolover718 ,
Looks like it is time to post some pictures of our system. Happy listening!

An update. 

The speakers have about 375 hours on them.  They are really starting to come into their own. It's amazing how detailed they are without being bright.  The detail is really at the edges and not "force fed" like the Maggie's. the proacs have a very sophisticated presentation, that has to be heard in the flesh to fully understand.  When you listen to a Maggie, that spooky transparency and super speed gets you hook line and sinker.  The proacs don't portray the music that way, it's a warmer,thicker,  (in a good way) more musical presentation. I understand now what it means when people say how they play the music within the music.  The speakers have been totally all over the place with their sound. Some nights great, some nights not so great, and some nights downright crappy! Tonight, however, they sound more than great. I just down understand how they change from night to night,  but they do. 200 more hours and I will start to,shut down system at night and use the system normally again. Then we shall see if they improve over the next couple of months incrementally. 

I have ordered the soundocity outriggers as per the suggestion in this thread.  My current seating arrangement is not allowing me to get the tweeter at proper ear level. Right now, my is level with the top of the surround of the top of the woofer, way to high above the tweeter.   I don't have the ability to set rake angle because the stock spikes don't have enough travel to compensate for my uneven floor AND adjust for rake angle. Hopefully the outriggers will help me get better imaging and better tone.  I can't imagine my current ear to tweeter height mismatch helping me.  I think I read you can have your ear 3 inches higher or lower than the tweeter and still be within acceptable alignment. With my ear where it is,  I'm way more than three inches too high.  I'm hoping a whole new dimension will come to life once the outriggers get here.  

What soundocity outriggers did you order?

I've had my studio 148s for about 14 months now and it still seems like they incrementally improve each month with possibly more break in and refinement.  Plus, I just put some Signal Cable MagicPower power cables on my preamp and phono preamp - great addition!  I usually leave tuner, amp and preamp on 100%.  Tuner is the usual source all day unless there is a specific listening session going on. 

So many of our perceptions in this often eccentric hobby are influenced by which way the wind is blowing and the phase of the moon during any particular listening moment.

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