Try moving your speakers a bit closer together so that the distance to the listening position is further than the speakers are apart (or move your listening position back or a combo of both) until you have about 10 to 11 ratio and see what happens. A few inches here can make a large difference.
Does a good monitor produce a compressed sound?
I swap my speaker from Axiom M22ti (monitor) to Silverline Panatella II (Floor standing). My system is Audio Electronic Supply SE-1 Amp with volume control and CAL Icon 2 CD player.
The first thing I notice when properly setting up the speaker is that the obvious center focus (i.e. vocal) from the Axiom smears out to between the speaker (smearing like a zone rather one point of center focus) and the sound opens up quite a lot. Also it sounds much less harsh than the Axiom. Here is the question:
1. As the Axiom is the best monitor so far I have had so I am not sure if the compressed sound I heard is a typical for a monitor (shouldn't be). To put it another way, does monitor pruduce more compressed sound compared to a floor standing speaker of the same range?
2. Does the floor standing usually smearing the spot on center focus out? I don't think it's a bad thing for me, just different.
3. For the harsh on the Axiom, it may be not fair to compair the Axiom with the Panatell as it's not the same level. What curious me is that is this the best I can get out from the speaker or if it's b/c not enough burning in? I have it for 6 months and use it probably over the straight 3 months period, so I think it should be broken in by now.
Any comment on this?
Thanks,
Ake
The first thing I notice when properly setting up the speaker is that the obvious center focus (i.e. vocal) from the Axiom smears out to between the speaker (smearing like a zone rather one point of center focus) and the sound opens up quite a lot. Also it sounds much less harsh than the Axiom. Here is the question:
1. As the Axiom is the best monitor so far I have had so I am not sure if the compressed sound I heard is a typical for a monitor (shouldn't be). To put it another way, does monitor pruduce more compressed sound compared to a floor standing speaker of the same range?
2. Does the floor standing usually smearing the spot on center focus out? I don't think it's a bad thing for me, just different.
3. For the harsh on the Axiom, it may be not fair to compair the Axiom with the Panatell as it's not the same level. What curious me is that is this the best I can get out from the speaker or if it's b/c not enough burning in? I have it for 6 months and use it probably over the straight 3 months period, so I think it should be broken in by now.
Any comment on this?
Thanks,
Ake
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