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Uneven soundstage help, please.

I've got a pair of ATC SCM40 v2's driven by a Musical Fidelity A308 (plenty of power) and overall I'm happy with this combination, given my budget, wife, and listening habits. My system is in an incredibly complex large room, with all sorts of variables in terms of reflection, absorption, etc. And these aren't exactly the same from one speaker to another. I have no choice about speaker placement, given the room configuration.
There's a phenomenon that concerns me, though, that I haven't been able to resolve. In order to get the center centered, I need to position the speakers and listening chair in such a way that the soundstage extends all the way to one speaker, but only three-quarters of the way to the other. It doesn't sound out of whack. It's just a narrower field than I had with my older KEF References, and I wonder if it would sound even better if this was resolved.
Has anyone else faced and solved this? What factors are driving it? I've been living with it comfortably, but I wonder.
Thanks ahead of time for any replies.
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mahgister
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I do the same.....Good idea b_limo....But it is more gentle the way i did it....Peroxyde must not be put in great amount in theĀ  ear....

Instead,

For the night only a drop of a special solution they sold cheap in pharma...Or a drop of peroxyde in many drops of water you push the 9 or 10 drops with a dropper into the ears...

Then at morning it is better to push slowly tepid water with a special seryngue into the ears ...

You go on like that one, 2, or 3 days it is relative to the size of the obstruction... You take the number of days it takes to have a clear water dirty one....For inspecting the water that will flow out of the ear you ,ust use a vase against the ear when pushing the water seryngue into the ears....

The best is to buy a tool kit for cleaning the ear at pharma... The instruction are given ... Or go on youtube and you will have more clearly all the method i just describe....


And then sounds take colors anew....

No more lost in soundstage balance either...

It is with that operation after which i was able to do my acoustical setting of room with only my ears...

šŸ˜Š


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mahgister
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I had the same problem with an uneven soundstage because one of my speakers is encased in the wall corner, my small room being irregular...Playing with the balance button was not a very great solution....I was thinking also that i was poperhaps a bit deaf from one of my ears... šŸ˜Š

This was the problem which set me on my experiments path in the acoustical embedding of my system in my room...

I optimally solved it with passive materials treatment , looking for a balance equation between absorbing surface, reflective one and diffusive volume and surface...
And with active embeddings controls with Schumann generators linked to resonators grids...( my resonators were bought for peanuts because they are not audio products)...


Then there is a solution, this is the good news...But my solution takes me 2 years to create it and with a complex grids of devices...

The bad news is i dont know how to adapt my solution to a normal living room on the critical eye of any wife...

Alas! my cheap cost solutions and devices are not adapted to a living room esthetically and i am pretty sure that no wife will acept them....

I am lucky enough to have a room solely dedicated to my audio system... At least know that solution exist, certainly some better than mine esthetically...


I wish you the best to come...


Ā« What the hell all these cablesĀ  and weird bling-bling devices do in this room? They make one of the corner disapearĀ  my dear Ā»- Groucho Marx husband and acoustician
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