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In Reply to: RE: A Couple Points of Clarification.... posted by Jim Hodgson on November 27, 2007 at 09:05:02:
Jim,
I wasn't so much trying to match rooms and systems so much as rooms and people. I think our systems say something about us and I was trying to extrapolate from what I was deducing about you from your system page to how the room would suit you.
Don't get me wrong. As I said, I do think the room can be made to work with your system and without filling it with highly visible acoustic treatment but doing so depends much more strongly on making really effective choices for curtains, carpet and the like. Each time one of those choices doesn't give you all you can get from it, the chance of not ending up with sound you'll be happy with increases.
On the other hand I think that with a dedicated room, someone (definitely not everyone) who has gone the 'high tech' route may be more inclined to make a matching visual statement with room treatment as well. It's a lot easier to guarantee successful results soundwise with that option and the treatments are a lot easier to deal with visually if you're going to make a statement with them. I think there is definitely a place for the "if you've got it, flaunt it" approach with room treatment if you can make the treatments and components into a strong and complementary visual statement but my feeling was from your comments that this approach was definitely not what you wanted.
With a more 'average' room, it's a lot easier to be able to do a lot with soft furnishings and to add a few selected acoustic treatments in ways that are less visually 'overpowering' than trying to do everything with treatments can be. That's the approach I've tried to take in my own room with some success though I would love to make the treatments less obvious in my room. I'm once again thinking about ways to do that currently.
As to the tubes and warmth, one of my close friends whose system I enjoy listening to often runs SET amplification and vintage Altec Lansing horns though he is using add-on supertweeters with them. That system sounds a little warmer than mine but I suspect that the warmth tends to come more from the contribution of the 15" woofers in comparison to my 6.5" woofers rather than from the top end of the system. When I think of tubes, I tend to think in terms of the sound of his system in comparison to mine and I think his is slightly warmer as I said. In absolute terms I regard both systems as reasonably neutral though I'd also say that both are on the warm side of the neutral range rather than the cool side, with his a bit more to that side but still within the neutral range. Whether or not you regard your sound as warm in absolute terms, I think it will probably shift to a cooler balance in a room like that unless the system setup and what you do with the room manage to reduce the acoustic signature of the room very significantly. And while I agree with you that many of us go for accuracy, we can't achieve absolute accuracy and I think that we each prefer to be slightly to one side or the other of that. My assumption was that you would go for the warm side of dead neutral.
David Aiken
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