Bats-eye View of Showroom 1
These pictures are taken from the landing above the livingroom. Using a wide-angle lens, the size of things are somewhat distorted, things are not exactly how they appear – but you get the idea.
We still have amps laying around as we try and ‘learn’ the sound of the current configuration befoew we change it.
Showroom One From Above.
The chair behind the couch is only backwards because sometimes I like to sit leaning on the back of the chair – not because I listen to the system backwards… 🙂
Showroom One From Above.
The Nordost Valhalla speaker cable is kind of left laying on the carpet in front of the system – sometimes it just takes too long to put something away when we could be instead putting in another CD into the Meitner.
The Lamm ML1.1 amps are still resting over on the right side of the room, the Edge are shining up at us behind the couch to the left there, and you can see just one of the Lamm ML2.1 amps over by the Rix Rax which has the Emm Labs CDSD transport on it.
If you look closely you can see the orange optical cables snaking along the left in front of the hearth from the CDSD transport to the DCC2 DAC.
Showroom One From Above.
This is a view that is more like what a human might see as they listen to the system from the second floor landing. It sounds like listening from a balcony – quite nice but not like the audiophile-grade experience below.
Well, I thought people might enjoy these photos. It is not too many listening rooms that have a vantage point like this!
Interesting photos! I have a high-ceilinged room at home which I would love to take over, but it’s completely occupied by tropical houseplants.
Your main room somewhat reminds me of these (they are on a smaller scale):
http://www.linkwitzlab.com/orion_searanch.htm#ORION%20by%20the%20sea
http://www.linkwitzlab.com/Orion-HMC.htm
Care to rent out your home for a weekend? 🙂
– Steve O.
Mike, you must NOT to position LF sections BETWEEN your MF channels. This is one of the major strategic foolishness of Accapellas and you need to deal with it. Try to reverse the channels, it will narrow the stage but it will produce more “proper” imaging. Yes, they need a wider room…
Rgs,
Romy the Cat
PS: your registration still does not work
Hi, Steve. I’ll have to talk it over with Neli 🙂
Hi Romy,
Yeah, the Acapella Campaniles and Triolons put the bass towers inside of the midrange horm(s). Physically, not much can be done about it, this is the way they are built.
The Coltrane Supremes loudspeakers allow putting the bass towers on the inside or outside of the main towers and we have been planning on trying it both ways (although we do expect imaging to suffer, but the wall behind the speakers is deeper towards the center of the room and the rear-ported bass towers might like it closer to the center than they do at the sides of the room). If nothing else it will be a fun experiment!
Yeah *sigh* it would be great if our livingroom / showroom 1 was twice as wide. And had more windows instead of the fireplace considering that it is the wall with the best view. Both of which we considered during our remodel. Thank goodness we didn’t do it. It would have been cheaper to just build a new house.
Don’t know why you could not change your Romy the Cat registration. It is a part of WordPress that I have not played with yet.
Take care,
Mike.
OK, Romy. NOW we know what you are talking about. We were sitting in front of the system and discussing your point when Neli (not me, unfortunately, but she won’t rub it in… much 🙂 ) figured out that you meant swap the speakers, physically, left for right.
We might even try to do that if, one, they weren’t 900 pounds and two, we still owned them and/or carried them and three, if the horns didn’t partially obscure the tweeter on the, what is currently, the outside of the speaker’s soundstage.
But this might indeed work for the Acapella Campaniles – so all you STRONG Campanile owners out there – think about swapping your right speaker for your left – see if you get tighter imaging (not that imaging on Campaniles, and Triolons, isn’t already more-or-less state-of-the-art…. not that the state-of-the-art doesn’t suck, Romy, but it is what it is).
We actually did think about swapping our old blue Campaniles a few times, left for right, but I think we decided that, well, at that time we were more cautious about making sure we didn’t venture too far out into Bizarre Audiophile Behavior Land.
Of course, now we no longer worry so much about that. 🙂
Thanks,
Mike.