WANT tukans to do the disapearing thing???

DID you guys ''toe em in'' or leave the speakers straight,
thank you for your replys!
the rig is -pretek-powertek-arcam cdp-nordost inter's and linn speaker wire,
joolz

Hi,

I would pull the speakers out from the front wall to 4 ft. As well, not all music material will enable to make your speakers disappear. For example, most audiophile stuff from Chesky when played on most speakers will make it sound as if music is not coming from the speaker if properly set up, but normal music is sometimes recorded so that it is panned hard left or right and the sound will emanate from the speaker and not "disappear".

Good luck!

Try room treatments from (www.decware.com).

I have Tukan's in my office system. I have also tried them in my main system in a very large well treated room with Sigtech DSP room correction. It is hard to make them disappear, especially since there is a certain brightness resulting from a small peak in the frequency response and the port can excite the room modes. However, I think they are great speakers (I’m listening to Haydn on them right now) and recommend them to all of my classical music listening friends on a budget.

This is only way I have found to get them to come lose to disappearing. Make sure that the first reflection points (especially behind you) are treated ant that overall the room is a little dead so the brightness is not reinforced. Get them away from the back wall so the port doesn’t excite the room modes. Set them no more then 6 feet apart, toe them in and listen close to on axis at 6 – 8 feet.

Doing the disappearing act isn’t the Tukan’s strong point but musical enjoyment sure is.

I'd say a little further from the back wall (3 feet), and a bit closer together (6ft) ... how far from the plane of the speakers do you sit ? I've found an equilateral triangle works well. Toe in helps mostly if there are side walls present, but a slight toe-in could still help you.

There's no precise formula so little movements might make big differences.