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| 466.1 | | CHEFS::TAFF::Wob | Robert Screene, UK Finance EUC | Wed Jan 19 1994 17:12 | 9 |
| Are they facing straight from a nice solid wall. Try moving them closer or
from the rear wall. A few inches really does make the difference!
Are they front or rear ported or solid box designs? My guess with a big
mission model number like that is they're floor standing and front ported.
Ports are funny things and make placement even more tempremental.
Regards,
Rob.
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| 466.2 | | ZPOVC::THOMASLEONG | | Thu Jan 20 1994 06:50 | 10 |
| Rob
My speakers are placed one foot from the solid wall and they are placed
about 8 feet apart. What do you mean by front ported? What I can see is
that they have three holes in the front. They are of the solid box
design, I think. I will try placing them nearer to the wall and see what
happen. Will post again.
Thanks
Thomas
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| 466.3 | | BAHTAT::HILTON | Beer...now there's a temporary solution | Thu Jan 20 1994 14:29 | 1 |
| Are they on stands or straight onto carpet or something soft?
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| 466.4 | | ZPOVC::THOMASLEONG | | Fri Jan 21 1994 02:26 | 8 |
| The speakers are floor standing type and the vendor supplied it with
four rubber cushion. The floor has no carpet and they are floor ceramic
tiles. I have tried placing it about 5 inches away from the solid wall
but it seems that there is not much of a difference in sound. I have
also changed the interconnects of my CD player (Denon 695). What else
could be wrong?
Thanks
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| 466.5 | Rubber cushions are for seats :-) | HLDE01::STEENWINKEL | Mostly Harmless | Fri Jan 21 1994 10:30 | 7 |
| Change the rubber cushions for a decent set of spikes, three per
speaker. Spikes start at a couple of US$ apiece but on my system it
was one of the best improvements in sound, price/performance-wise,
followed by speaker cabling.
- Rik -
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| 466.6 | In phase ? | UPROAR::WEBSTERM | any old string | Fri Jan 21 1994 17:48 | 8 |
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Probably a silly idea but,
Check the cables and make sure the speakers are in phase. Once
connected an old pair of goodmans speakers out of phase and the loss of
base was amazing.
Mike
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| 466.7 | Rooms/Houses | KIRKTN::PCARLIN | | Sat Jan 22 1994 17:29 | 11 |
| How big is your listening room? Small rooms can suffer from lack of
bass because of destructive interference of the air waves. Not much
you can do about that one!
Also, houses can be funny things: my Linn Saras don't produce much
bass in my listening room but if I go upstairs, the furniture is
bouncing across the floor!
I agree with the above note: check the polarity. Out of phase speakers
can cancel out the bass.
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| 466.8 | | TASTY::JEFFERY | Children need to learn about X in school | Mon Jan 24 1994 12:27 | 9 |
| re: .-1
> Also, houses can be funny things: my Linn Saras don't produce much
> bass in my listening room but if I go upstairs, the furniture is
> bouncing across the floor!
Check for poltergeists first!
Mark.
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| 466.9 | | ZPOVC::THOMASLEONG | | Tue Jan 25 1994 06:00 | 6 |
| My friend suggested that probably my AV amp can not drive the mission
speakers. Maybe it will be wise to add an active subwoofer to the
system. Any ideas what I should do?
Thanks
Thomas
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| 466.10 | we want freedom | ZPOVC::WENGFATT | | Tue Feb 15 1994 02:58 | 1 |
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| 466.11 | Boom boom | PEKING::GERRYT | | Tue Feb 22 1994 12:50 | 10 |
| Wrong connection of the wires ie plus to minus on one of the speakers
does make a great deal of difference ie out of phase as previous
suggestion.
Sub-woofers can distort the stereo image, so it may be better to check
all connections again, and watch positioning of the speakers.
If you put them in corners of the room, you may notice they get a lot
more 'boomy'.
Tim
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| 466.12 | Still no Bass | ZPOVC::THOMASLEONG | | Tue Jun 21 1994 04:46 | 7 |
| HI
Just to update everybody. I have not added any subwoofer and I am
putting my system into a display unit, housing the speakers, hopefully
the sound will turn out fine.
Thanks
Thomas
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