Thiel Owners

Unsound  & yyz- thanks for the catch. Seems I am confusing my stories. The 'cubed' feedback stands as exceedingly complimentary; but I don't remember from what source. 

yyzantabarbara

I'd like to throw my 2 cents in , not about amps because of the cost 
but about room acoustics .
For a very reasonable price you could try replacing the 4 inch thick
panels you are using for the side reflection with 1 or 2 inch thick ones ,
on the acoustimac site the give the graphs for each of thier thicknesses .
You can see how you can absorb higher frequency reflections while allowing the lower ones thru , this might help with your lack of bass .

Just a thought
Rob

@vair68robert Thanks for  your input. I am going to stick with the GIK panels for now because I am low on funds and also these panels made my room sound great with the KEF LS50s. Prior to the panels the sound was awful. I understand the CS3.7 is a different beast but I am getting close to the sound I want.

I am taking the the suggestion of unsound and moved my speaker back 1 foot from the back wall. This is the closet I have had any speaker in this room. Still trying to figure out if I like that positioning. Though with DRC it will not matter.

I am playing Santana's Caranvanserai SACD and it sounds pretty good. Thought last night when I played it on my headphones I was wowed and thought I need to hear this again on the CS3.7 in the morning. It is not as great on the speakers and I think it is not the room this time, Ii is the amp. This is an album where some power is required out of the amp. There is a lot of percussion on this album.

I got feedback from the DRC engineer this morning after I sent him my 2 preliminary measurement files. He plotted the measurement on a graph and the lines were very close from the 2 different days. The measurement with the desk in the room actually had a little better base. Though I liked the sound without the desk.  I will be sending more measurements today to get him going on the Convolution file generation for my room.

^ I would think that the very close (right up against the wall) would really only work with DSP. Without DSP I would think the opposite would be true, Though bass reinforcement  and less strain on the amp might be the case against the wall with or without DSP.

Keep the time domain in mind, especially for phase coherent speakers. On and off axis radiation patterns are different as the frequency rises. The speaker is balanced into an "average" environment with assumptions made as to where the front and side walls "might likely" be. Those assumptions never include placement near a wall. Perhaps you can unscramble the changes with DSP, but the differences with placement will be significant.