@jperry , I had a room size problem also. 545s are only 24" wide and Sound Labs will make them any height for you. I highly recommend going for 8 footers. You would have a speaker 4" wider than my old Acoustat
2+2's. The interface and imaging would be exactly the same as what I have. The speaker would roll off the bass a little earlier and that is about it.
luisma31, I've been talking about getting them for years. I finally got that window in my financing to do it.
I should also add that Lewm was very helpful during the darkest days. There was a period I was thinking that maybe I should not have sold the Acoustats. Then again I have never been satisfied with any speaker right out of the box. There is always a period of adjustment when you are working to get the speakers as close to your ideal as you can. When you are using room control and have 1/2 octave EQ capability it takes even longer. One of the reasons these speakers are imaging at their best is I spent hours matching the response from 100 Hz to 10 kHz to within 1 dB of each other. This requires a calibrated mic and individual EQ for each channel. The short sine wave signal is still rattling around in my head.
The frequency response of the best speakers (tight tolerances) can match perfectly in an anechoic chamber but, put them in a real room and all bets are off. Their response can vary as much as 10 dB at various frequencies, maybe even more under some circumstances. Since location is highly volume dependent what you get is a vague image like a blurred picture. Small details are lost in the haze. I did not understand how significant this problem was until I started messing around with microphones and digital signal processing. Having only worked with ESLs this way I suspect dynamic speakers are capable of much better imaging given the same treatment. I have never heard a dynamic speaker so treated. I know the image will be smaller but that does not mean it can not be just as accurate, you will be sitting further back in the venue. I would love to be able to treat gammaman's Magico S7's this way but his Mac theater possessor which has Lyngdorf's Room Perfect only has a treble and bass control, no equalizer programming. Maybe after hearing the Sound Labs I can get him to go for a Trinnov. I can also show him the variance between his speakers when I get over with the microphone.
Thank you all for the Kudos. They should really go to Roger West and Sound Labs.
2+2's. The interface and imaging would be exactly the same as what I have. The speaker would roll off the bass a little earlier and that is about it.
luisma31, I've been talking about getting them for years. I finally got that window in my financing to do it.
I should also add that Lewm was very helpful during the darkest days. There was a period I was thinking that maybe I should not have sold the Acoustats. Then again I have never been satisfied with any speaker right out of the box. There is always a period of adjustment when you are working to get the speakers as close to your ideal as you can. When you are using room control and have 1/2 octave EQ capability it takes even longer. One of the reasons these speakers are imaging at their best is I spent hours matching the response from 100 Hz to 10 kHz to within 1 dB of each other. This requires a calibrated mic and individual EQ for each channel. The short sine wave signal is still rattling around in my head.
The frequency response of the best speakers (tight tolerances) can match perfectly in an anechoic chamber but, put them in a real room and all bets are off. Their response can vary as much as 10 dB at various frequencies, maybe even more under some circumstances. Since location is highly volume dependent what you get is a vague image like a blurred picture. Small details are lost in the haze. I did not understand how significant this problem was until I started messing around with microphones and digital signal processing. Having only worked with ESLs this way I suspect dynamic speakers are capable of much better imaging given the same treatment. I have never heard a dynamic speaker so treated. I know the image will be smaller but that does not mean it can not be just as accurate, you will be sitting further back in the venue. I would love to be able to treat gammaman's Magico S7's this way but his Mac theater possessor which has Lyngdorf's Room Perfect only has a treble and bass control, no equalizer programming. Maybe after hearing the Sound Labs I can get him to go for a Trinnov. I can also show him the variance between his speakers when I get over with the microphone.
Thank you all for the Kudos. They should really go to Roger West and Sound Labs.