Speaker glare...help

Hi everyone

A'gon member DCstep stated:

" Midrange glare is an indicator of less than ideal speaker placement. Room treatment comes after speaker placement."

I believe I'm getting listener fatigue due to mid-range glare in my listening room. I'm trying to fix the problem methodically now and am trying to gather info before I go nuts. Now does speaker height also fall under speaker placement? Does the height of the mid-range/tweeter affect gmid-range glare? Currently right now I have a pair of KEF Q-90s raised 10" so that the Uni-Q driver is right at my ear level. I'm wondering if I go to a shorter stand if that would help with the glare. I'm trying to price a stand made of maple or myrtle wood with brass footers. The stand w/ brass footers would be about 4-5" high which would drop the Uni-Q mid range about 5-6" below my ears when I'm listening.

Thanks

Hi Rockadanny

Thanks for chiming in. I'm in the midst of breaking in new SCs (Zu Missions) and trying them soon to combat the mid-range glare I'm getting hit with. I've gone through a bunch of different ICs and I'm happy with the current set I have. If the new SCs don't work I'll be back to the drawing board.

Hello Hifisoundguy

Thanks for your input as well. I saved your previous e-mails to me regarding the Maestro outlets and I look @ your Maestro thread periodically. This glare issue I've been having is definitely making me take a look at everything in my system. This may be wrong but the power part of it I'm going to have to address last as it will be very time consuming and expensive for me to handle. (Addition of 2 individual 20 amp circuits, cost of the audiophile outlets, and a laundry list of other electrical issues).

I'm hoping some room treatments, speaker cable change and speaker stand tweaks help with the glare first.

Hey Unsound

By Room correction do you mean adding types of treatment (Sonex pads, Real Traps or similar) or getting something equipped with Audyssey?

Doing analysis on my room and adding treatments is next on my things to handle. I'm going to try a speaker cable change then a speaker stand change. I'm trying to do a cheaper version of the Mapleshade bases.

As for Audyssey Room correction I hadn't thought of that. I have seen that term in other forums but never looked into it. I always thought Audyssey was for HT set-ups. I'll add that to my list but that would require me to go to different equipment and I'm not ready to part with all my gear yet.

Thanks again for chiming in.

Unsound

Thanks for the lead with TacT and other similar products. I'm checking around and researching a preamp that will work for me but man oh man those TacT preamps are expensive (at least for me). I've got to save some $.

Ebm

Thanks for the heads up with the Symposium Acoustics platforms. I'm going to contact them to see what of their offerings will work best for me. My preamp is a McCormack TLC-1 Deluxe and it already has the four "soft shoes" attached for damping chassis vibrations on the bottom of it. I always thought that was enough. When I had music playing I didn't feel the TLC-1 Deluxe vibrating at all.