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Main system, Audio Physic Virgos. Set up not optimal but only option I have at the moment. That isn't the listening chair before someone says something, that would be highly suboptimal.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...a8ff6b95f6.jpg
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I wish I had been able to try my Audio Physic Virgo 2 in a different room but the sideways firing bass driver just didn't work in my living room so I moved them on ...
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My mrs was gutted when I sold my Chario Academy II - beautiful solid wood cabs but I found the treble just a little too rolled-off for my tastes.
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Nice speakers, Jules, beautifully built and highly rated, too! :)
However, that's one of the issues with the modern fashion of designing floor-standing speakers with slim baffles, in an attempt to appear as 'room friendly', to pander to WAF... Remove those side-firing bass drivers and put them on the front of the speakers instead, with suitably wide baffles, and I suspect that would cure much of the problem! ;)
'Wide-boys' rool :eyebrows:
Marco.
I'm pretty sure of it, Jerry! I completely agree with you about the imaging, as that's one of the things the Virgo's excel at, but for me, side-firing bass drivers on floor-standing speakers, in most modern rooms, is a flawed concept.
Marco.
I've got them in a bay, I find toeing them in gives the bass a longer apparent path to the walls and works well, but of course the width of the stage contracts a little. As I listen almost nearfield this isn't a problem. So basically I think they are more flexible than might be thought. After all some speakers have a bass cone that fires down into the floor and this is by design.
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Interesting that the co-founder of Audio Physic, Joachim Gerhard, left the company as he was unhappy about its direction - he now has a new company that sells speakers, amps and cartridges -
http://www.suesskindaudio.de/?lang=en
He's got another speaker with side-firing drivers but some very different designs too ...
These are possibly the best speakers I have ever heard. Certainly the best for soundstaging, so good compared to anything else it just isn't funny. I think you can build them for a couple of grand if you have the skills and the tools. Designed for active operation though.