SBL's with nowhere to go!
Posted by: Littlefeat on 04 December 2017
Moved into my new home (just retired) and loving the open plan setup and the glass everywhere. A great feel of air and light, but my SBL`s are backed onto a glass partition and not sounding good. There isn't anywhere else to put them. Any ideas ,or workarounds please. I am not selling my SBL's they are joining me in a very tastefull humanist funeral .
That’s a challenge for the forum members, I hope they can come up with some great ideas. I have nothing to offer I am afraid, but will follow your journey. Perhaps there is a local dealer that can be suggested that will provide the required information and help. Best wishes with your retirement, music is important!
It sounds like new speakers then. Something nice and efficient for the Uniti, and something that looks pretty for the new space. I’d get down to your local dealer to see what floats your boat.
1. Accept that SBLs are the wrong speakers for your room, and find some that work better.
2. Put up with sub-optimal sound.
or 3. Brick up some windows.
Yeah, smash some glass and build a wall. No other rooms in the house with a solid wall that could become a listening room? Desperate situation for an SBL man, I feel for you!
Stu
It's time to build a wall.
Preferably a thick one.
Dedicated listening room built in the garden?
Doesn't have to be big if well designed..
I feel for you. It is either the speakers that must go, or room treatment possibly with speaker repositioning - though based on the description I suspect that there is limited scope for room treatment. You could do worse than to contact an acoustics specialist for advice - the very helpful GiK Acoustics provide a free online advice service, and armed with a free copy of REW measuring software and asuitable measuring microphone you could make measurements and feed to them.
Two other possibilities come to mind - I have known speakers in theoretically incorrect positions sound good, so it could be worth playing around: one a friend of mine had hit on had the speakers on walls at right angles to one another, one directly facing the listening position and the othervto one side, It “shouldn’t” have worked, but in his odd, large L-shaped room it did. Oh, the other one? Headphones...
On the lookout for my own retirement home at present - and a reasonably decent listening room is one of the key non-negotiables. (On paper anyway - the trouble is, you don’t really know untill you move in.) That with the other small number of non-negotiables makes potential houses few and far between. If only suitable land was available to build to my design...
You don't kown tomorrow. So just keep them!
Thanks for all your replies to my first world problem...think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and invest in some wall mounted bookshelf speakers, N-Sats might have fitted the bill if they were still in production...any suggestions ...I have not set foot in a hi-fi shop in years. Moved to Bexhill on sea.
Why not go to Audio T in Brighton and see what they suggest. Something like Neat Motive 2 or Kudos X2 could work very well, away from the walls.
Very Trumpish Richard.
PS Please don’t ban me!
stuart.ashen posted:Very Trumpish Richard.
PS Please don’t ban me!
