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After nearly 20 years, I left Magnepan and went ProAc

Listened to proac d48r's a few weeks ago and fell in love at first listen. After a couple of days I got my wife to sign my "permission slip" and took the plunge and they now reside where my 1.6 once stood.  You see, I've never heard a speaker literally mesmerize me and engage me like this before.  Sure the Maggie's have a huge image and soundstage and transparency, but these Proacs simply sound more like a real event, with dynamics and palpability, with a more refined and true sound.  The images are much more dense.   

I only have 48 hours on them so they are nowhere near their final voice, but they are breaking in nicely.  The manual says they require a lengthy break in.  I pulled out my old marantz cd-5000 to do the break in honors and will run these straight for a week or two and then taper off with normal listening.   

One thing I dont care for are the spikes. They have these little slits that aid in tightening, but no tool to go around them, so I can't get a good tightening with just my fingers.......so the spikes jiggle.  When I check  I can hear the spike and lock but chatter, and   this is not helping my  stability or sound.  Any sugesstions to tighten them right would be helpful. Thanks.  Cheers to a new chapter!   Wanted to share my excitement with you.  So grateful and never thought I would have speakers like This.  It feels like a dream!

audiolover718
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perfectpathtech
236 posts
 
Sounds like sloppy threads on the spikes, plumbers Teflon tape around the threads on the spikes.
schubert
7,386 posts
 
+ 1 for Maggies being special .
    What other speaker can tell you Diana Krall is really 6',6"
tubegroover
2,320 posts
 
Maggies are nothing special.

+1 Jafant, I REALLY get the appeal. But going back 30 years (2.6) to the present (3.7s) and many in between, great value speakers but they have too many shortcomings I personally could never live with.

btw Schubert IS Diana Krall  6'6" tall? One of those things I DON'T like, an exaggeration of image size + require WAY too much power.

Enjoy your proac d48r' Audiolover, great choice!
schubert
7,386 posts
 
With heels on MMG exactly 6'5.6"
audiolover718 OP
132 posts
 
This is is going to be harder than I thought.  Right now these are in a smaller room 13.75x16x75. It's been a few days now, and I've been fiddling with placement. These are dynamos.  They are getting 550 Watts a side, and The midbass is too strong around 200-800hz and is booming and killing the image.  It's not noticeable all the time, but it's hard to turn them up because the just sound so boomy.  Yes I know the room is small, but I bought them anyway with the thiought of finishing the basement in the future and moving down there.  I have to make due for now.. any suggestions? Woofer face about 3.75 out from rear wall, 3.5 feet from side wall, listening position about 11.25 feet away from speaker.  Whatever the minimum distance I can get away with with these with the MTM array? I have a heavenly speaker in a hellacious room.  It's got that plasticy midbass boom box resonance I remember from being a kid. I want to tackle this head on with the placement, and then look at treatments to help the bass.  Sometimes it sounds good sometimes I want to shut it off.  I know they are still breaking in, but I doubt this weird bass is gonna fix it self with break in. 
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