Von Schweikert VR-4 Jr Room and amp Requirements

Mike,

The speakers are not bright at all. They are very smooth in the top end. What is bright though is my room. Because of the fact that it is square and small. But I have made some roomtune corners and echos and various other treatments to tame the brightness. I am probably going to go with the 45 degree placement probably tonight. We'll see what that does. I am not looking forward to lugging everything around though.

Rob

My JR's are in a room that is rectangular. About 20 feet long and 10 feet wide. The speakers are aimed down the long wall. The sound is fabulous. I can only single wire them at this time and I hook my mains to the M/T unit. I have a pair of custom jumpers ( (20 inch--made from the same wireas my mains) running down to the bass unit, and it sounds great. If you are going to single wire these, I highly reccommend going this way. The manual is pretty good at describing what to do in different room configurations and I think they recommend a diagonal placement in a square room.

Well, I just wanted to report back that last night I tried the diagonal placement and what a difference. My room is almost a square and a small square at that. The soundstage is now much deeper and tonal balanced has improved. I just placed them without moving around for the best position, but even just ploping them down made a HUGE difference compared to the standard square placement.

Now it's time to tweak the rear ambiance driver, place room treatment and tweak the speaker toe in and placement. Some people enjoy this part of the process. I just like to get it over with.

Rob