toyota man said:
sorry to change the subject but I am thinking about changing my mission 752s and I was wondering El Hefe what size room you are running yor speakers in how close to side / rear walls you have them placed I am assuming that they work well with M6i as thats what your running I am also looking to bi amp to thanks for any help with this one any other speaker recomendations welcome musical tastes black keys ac/dc led zep hue and cry richard thompson yes the who
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My room is 15 x 20 ft....my speakers are placed along the 15 ft wall...
Its 2 ft from the side wall and 2.5 ft from rear....how did i come to this you may ask? Forget about the mumbo jumbo rules of speaker placement....i tried so many of them and experimented....and none of them works. The placement I put in was basically by me sitting in my listening spot and my friend move the speakers around for me to find the sweetspot.
Regardless of what you hear about how the D18s need to be placed away from walls, to me those are very subjective. And below is an explanation from David Amey of ProAc on his visit to Malaysia.
1) Big E: ProAc seems to have moved all their speaker ports towards the bottom firing direction, any design or user application advantages for the move?
David: ProAc is heading that direction with all our floor standing speakers, as you can see. We feel a bottom firing port allows more flexible speaker placement in a domestic environment, which now days are increasingly subjected to the WAF(Wife Acceptance Factor), i.e. hifi must co-exist in harmony with the family well being. With a bottom firing port, one can place the pair of speakers that much closer to the rear wall with out the room boom effect, meaning more space for the family and a less intrusive speaker in the living environment. However, there two versions of the theme. First, on our more afford able models, the ports just fires direct to the floor, which is not so good, because we will never know what's under the speakers, like carpets or rugs, wooden or concrete floors are just some of the more common surfaces. So on our higher end speaker models, we built a plinth under the speaker, supported by an arch design on the sides. This design allows the bottom firing port to have a consistent surface to work on, allowing bass response to be more predictable. On our Carbon Pro Series speakers, the plinth is made from carbon fibre composites, which has a certain reflective quality, very desire able to achieving tuneful, tight and dynamic bass response.