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    Join Date: Jun 2014

    Location: Italy

    Posts: 228
    I'm Eugenio.

    Default Low cost idea for toe-in fine setting

    Sometimes I wake up with the intention of optimizing something, and at this turn it is the time of toe-in fine setting.

    But making a precise and repeatable adjustment is not so easy.
    And so I simulated the position of the listener's head with an polystyrene bar, some books and a Lego head box.

    I also used an unexpensive laser level (purchased for 13 euros at wish.com) to project the orthogonal ray from speakers (in my case there is only one transducer per loudspeaker) to the Lego head.



    Moving the armchair back and forward I tried different positions of the crosspoint:
    • 1 mt behind the head
    • on the head
    • 50 cm ahead
    • 1 mt ahead






    I have listened each time to three reference tracks and chose at the end the compromise that I liked best.

    The parameters evaluated were width, depth of the scene, focus accuracy and "body" of the voices.
    At the end I decided to further sacrifice the width of the scene (which was not already at top level before the intervention) for the benefit of focus, depth and body of the voices.
    These sensations are detected from the listening point, while the differences are perceived less from the armchair next to it.

    The configuration chosen has been the toe-in crosspoint 50 cm ahead of the listening point, but I think this result is valid only in my room, with my speakers and for my tastes.

    And that's all :-)
    My system:
    Analog sources: Basis 2001 signature + Vector 4 tonearm
    Cartridges: koetsu Urushi Vermilion, Transfiguration Spirit, Ortofon MC-20 Super, Denon DL-103 SA
    Digital source: Denon DVD A1 (modified by Aurion Audio) - Apple Mac Mini + Schiit Eitr
    Phonostage: DIY Ear 834 clone + Denon HA 1000
    Power Amp: Dsonic M3a-1500M *2
    Preamp: Grandinote Proemio
    Loudspeakers: Proac EBS

  2. #2
    Join Date: Nov 2014

    Location: Caterham,Surrey

    Posts: 68
    I'm Stewart.

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    LEGO.Very constructive!

  3. #3
    Join Date: Mar 2016

    Location: Brighton, UK.

    Posts: 3,061
    I'm Mike.

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    That's a big lego.
    Current system 1210 GR. CDP - Meridian G08. Amp -Sugden A21I - Sig. Wharfedale Lintons.

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