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RE: Room Compensation for Dipoles

Posted by DaveStL (A) on August 8, 2010 at 12:22:29

In Reply to: RE: Room Compensation for Dipoles posted by MaggieLover on August 8, 2010 at 10:36:44:

Receiver is a Pioneer Elite VSX-92txh 130 W/ch x7 at 8 ohms (not ICE), lots of bells and whistles on the front end, little mic for determining room compensation. It seemed decent for a HT receiver, esp. since I didn't have the Maggies then. It's only rated down to 6 ohms. IIIas are driven by a Carver M1.5t 500 W/ch @ 4 ohms, from receiver line outs. Advent 1s are slightly smaller versions of the New Large Advents; the drivers are identical.

The Advents are temporary and I never expected them to mate well, but I'd like to make them a bit more usable for now, and definitely get the IIIas sounding better for HT. If I have any energy tonight after work I'll try to figure out manual calibration and will see what a phantom center sounds like.

My suspicion is the receiver is confused by the Maggies' reflected back wave and might not do any better even if the center were a CCR. Part of the reasoning is that with room compensation in stereo, stacked NLAs sounded cleaner than the IIIas.

Dave
--it's close enough for jazz...

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