Seats in the sbl concert hall
Posted by: graphoman on 23 March 2001
My system is rather unbalanced (CD3/32.5/HI/250/Sbl) and its present installation may sound a nightmare for Naim Audio since I got not more than 30-30 cm free wall space near the short corners of my 5.6x4m room. Sbls are stuffed into those holes with full bookshelves at the side walls and a long, 80 cm high shelf between. The upper bass is beneficially lifted by the 60 Hz main room resonance – somewhat Spendorish but surpasses the competition like Macintosh the usual Windows. Yet it tends to sound lean, and at such times I attempt to find in lack of a better player/preamp a better seat.
In the standard “stereo seat” some imbalance and ringing reminds me to sitting in row 3 of our Opera House in Budapest. Pushing the armchair out of the “sweet spot”, onto the back wall, I find more balance and less disturbing noise (row 5). At the end I withdraw to one of the back corner. Here the bass lift produced by the boundaries and the curtained treble brings me to row 8 where fidelity is reduced but opera music is enhanced.
My problem is that usual Hi-Fi manipulations seem to be highly interactive with this phenomenon. They all compress dynamic peaks while making music more listenable. Increasing NACA5’s length, switching computer/printer/lamps on, putting flowers etc. on top of the central shelf in front of the speaker’s “live wall” move you backwards in the sbl concert hall. Upgrading might change preferences but it is a long and never ending process and it remains unclaire in which state should one define the right way of room modifications. Is anybody in tune to deal with things like that?
In the standard “stereo seat” some imbalance and ringing reminds me to sitting in row 3 of our Opera House in Budapest. Pushing the armchair out of the “sweet spot”, onto the back wall, I find more balance and less disturbing noise (row 5). At the end I withdraw to one of the back corner. Here the bass lift produced by the boundaries and the curtained treble brings me to row 8 where fidelity is reduced but opera music is enhanced.
My problem is that usual Hi-Fi manipulations seem to be highly interactive with this phenomenon. They all compress dynamic peaks while making music more listenable. Increasing NACA5’s length, switching computer/printer/lamps on, putting flowers etc. on top of the central shelf in front of the speaker’s “live wall” move you backwards in the sbl concert hall. Upgrading might change preferences but it is a long and never ending process and it remains unclaire in which state should one define the right way of room modifications. Is anybody in tune to deal with things like that?