Tomico, I did find and download the Vandertones but have no idea what to do with them yet. Mostly what I am doing now is only moving the A3’s laterally from 7’ to maybe 9" apart and adjusting their toe in. There’s really no a lot of play in what I can do now. If I ever get a music room addition added to the house after I get the shop built I’ll have an opportunity to do more in terms of placement and acoustics. Then the more advanced theoretical aspects you all have been introducing me to will come into play, maybe even in the room design and planning stage. I’ll take a look on the ABE used books site and see if they have good condition copy of the Jim Smith book. I wonder if there’s a hardcover edition available?
Millercarbon, the Harley book sounds interesting too. I’ll track one of them down too. I’d like to learn more about room dimensions so I don’t make a mistake in the planning stage drawing up the blueprints of a music room addition. Tentatively I always planned that room to mimic the size of the two car garage on the opposite side of the house in order to maintain the home’s symmetry. That would make the music room 24’ wide by 30’ long with 10’ flat ceiling, no cathedral type structure to it. Maybe those Fibonacci equations would give some guidance of how this might work out acoustically. But I’m getting way ahead of myself. Right now getting the Magico’s spacing and toe-in correctly done is the focus.
Actually, just playing around with the toe in and reducing the distance between the speakers seems to be having a salutary effect. I played Emmylou Harris’ "Wrecking Ball album again", because it’s a more recently recorded and well produced CD. It sounded really beautiful with just those slight adjustments, and I don’t even usually care much for country music.
Kacomes, this has been an interesting discussion. There are some really knowledgeable folk here you can really learn a lot from when they share what they’ve learned about audio. You have to appreciate their input even when it starts going over your head. There’s a lot to be learned.
Mike
Millercarbon, the Harley book sounds interesting too. I’ll track one of them down too. I’d like to learn more about room dimensions so I don’t make a mistake in the planning stage drawing up the blueprints of a music room addition. Tentatively I always planned that room to mimic the size of the two car garage on the opposite side of the house in order to maintain the home’s symmetry. That would make the music room 24’ wide by 30’ long with 10’ flat ceiling, no cathedral type structure to it. Maybe those Fibonacci equations would give some guidance of how this might work out acoustically. But I’m getting way ahead of myself. Right now getting the Magico’s spacing and toe-in correctly done is the focus.
Actually, just playing around with the toe in and reducing the distance between the speakers seems to be having a salutary effect. I played Emmylou Harris’ "Wrecking Ball album again", because it’s a more recently recorded and well produced CD. It sounded really beautiful with just those slight adjustments, and I don’t even usually care much for country music.
Kacomes, this has been an interesting discussion. There are some really knowledgeable folk here you can really learn a lot from when they share what they’ve learned about audio. You have to appreciate their input even when it starts going over your head. There’s a lot to be learned.
Mike