Nice pose, daftee... Are you auditioning for Santa this year? :D:eyebrows:
Marco.
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Nice pose, daftee... Are you auditioning for Santa this year? :D:eyebrows:
Marco.
Don't get me wrong Marco, I did enjoy it, but bloody hard work.
Gordon (Halfway Tree) shared a larger exhibiting room with me, so we went down on the Saturday.
We had a stinker of a room acoustically and spent a long time into the evening, setting up and trying to make the most of it.
Ran a sweep on the room and it was fine 170Hz up, pretty flat with a gentle roll off at the top. Below 170hz it was peaks and troughs with many phase changes, had a wide and deep dip at 50Hz and a large peak below that. We tried everything we could but Gordon's Linkwitz LX521 OB's just wouldn't work in the room, so he didn't show them in the end.
The room (Syndicate3) is a small training room on the first floor and is squarish with painted plaster walls and a wooden floor, a large white board on one side wall and a flat screen telly on the back wall. It was so bright and echoey.
My semi active system faired better, but still needed careful positioning, far enough into the corners to get some bass room reinforcement, but not so far as to cause boom and create a confused top end. I turned the sealed cabinets upside down so the bass drivers were well above the floor and put them on small wooden pucks which all seemed to help, the mid/treble were in a separate cabinet sat on top (work in progress). Got plenty of complementary comments, so it must of come across ok, and having a few bodies in there helped tame it a bit, I think there were 16 people at one point.
My stylus/cantilever had fallen out of my cartridge a week before the show, but the hurried replacement (pre owned Ortofon MC20 Supreme) worked well. It seemed to improve as the day went on, maybe it had been stored for a while and the suspension needed to break in again, but the system as a whole was sounding quite nice by the end of the day considering the rooms limitations. :)
We had a stinker of a room acoustically and spent a long time into the evening, setting up and trying to make the most of it.
Ran a sweep on the room and it was fine 170Hz up, pretty flat with a gentle roll off at the top. Below 170hz it was peaks and troughs with many phase changes, had a wide and deep dip at 50Hz and a large peak below that. We tried everything we could but Gordon's Linkwitz LX521 OB's just wouldn't work in the room, so he didn't show them in the end.
:eek: WTF :eek: Is this HiFi , Plug it in set the volume and listen ;)
The rest of the pics I took:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/barryj...57681645808955
Lots of nice piccies Barry.. well done...:)
Lovely pics Barry. Might have to steal the one of my TT. Never got any myself.
Qwin, I saw your lanyard many times but never got the chance to say hi. What you describe is the very essence of what Scalford is all about. You took your stuff into a strange reflective room with peaks and troughs and you battled the odds to make it work for the visitors. Bravo that man and I'll see you next year, hopefully with a few AoS buddies that play it safe behind a keyboard.:)
Nice set of pictures Barry, I can see what I missed.
Rick - Felt like a battle at times lugging gear up those stairs, but worth it.
Believe me Al, you would not have wanted to listen to the LX521's, it was pretty awful. Which is a pity, because they are the most open natural sounding speaker I have heard, at any price. It was a tough decision and many people came to the room hoping to hear them, but they would have been very disappointed and maybe put off them, so Gordon stood them down.