Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home

Bob, that's an absolutely beautiful room ! You deserve it, it's taken a while, but I bet it more than makes up for the long wait you had.

Congrats again, and enjoy it for many years :congrats:
 
Bobvin said:
The Wilson dealer came on Sunday and spent six hours WASPing the Alexias. They are pretty close to the back wall, much more than I would have imagined. And the tweeters are 12.25' apart, which has my listening position about 15' back. I had some older, broken in REF gear for the setup, then just swapped in my new REF10 and REF75 yesterday. I found new positions for them today, and they now have 4 hours.

I spent a couple hours listening tonight in the almost darkness, with the meters turned off. That little REF75 is quite the amp. It drives the Alexias fine. And the room sounds quite good even with only the tube traps in the corner. If I run the volume up into the 90+ db range I hear things getting a little reverberant and confused with rock and orchestra, so there is some work to be done acoustically, but not so much I am not enjoying the hell out of having music again. (And tonight with a nice little Italian red! Wine that is!)


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Try some KT 150s in the amps! :)
 
Myles B. Astor said:
Try some KT 150s in the amps! :)
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KT150 tubes are on my list... I thought I'd go ahead and run the amp through break-in using the stock tubes. Then, just when the amp is at its musical best, slip in the KT150s for even more sonic bliss. :yahoo1:
 
Oh hell, why wait? I went ahead and ordered up a quad of KT150s. Bring on the sonic bliss!
 
Bobvin said:
Oh hell, why wait? I went ahead and ordered up a quad of KT150s. Bring on the sonic bliss!
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sorry i been missing this thread. everything looks great, youve come along way since ive seen this last. great job and congrats.
 
Bobvin said:
The Wilson dealer came on Sunday and spent six hours WASPing the Alexias. They are pretty close to the back wall, much more than I would have imagined. And the tweeters are 12.25' apart, which has my listening position about 15' back. I had some older, broken in REF gear for the setup, then just swapped in my new REF10 and REF75 yesterday. I found new positions for them today, and they now have 4 hours.

I spent a couple hours listening tonight in the almost darkness, with the meters turned off. That little REF75 is quite the amp. It drives the Alexias fine. And the room sounds quite good even with only the tube traps in the corner. If I run the volume up into the 90+ db range I hear things getting a little reverberant and confused with rock and orchestra, so there is some work to be done acoustically, but not so much I am not enjoying the hell out of having music again. (And tonight with a nice little Italian red! Wine that is!)


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Bob - do you have a spectrum analyzer that you can use to monitor the peeks of the specific frequencies? If not, I use this one on my iPhone for a quick and dirty analysis. (See below). You may want to get it, put it on the FFT plot mode and have a look. You want to identify where the specific peek(s) are in your room. Mine was 73hz. Above 90db excite which frequencies in your room?

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CPP said:
Bob a really nice room, now how can I fix this room
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Nice digs!

I have an idea, we swap houses for week. You can enjoy the forest here, my sweet wife and I get some beach time!
 
Excellent Mike, thanks. I'll download that app. Did you use a specific test source with that tool?
 
Bobvin said:
Excellent Mike, thanks. I'll download that app. Did you use a specific test source with that tool?
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I used pink noise, but also songs which seemed to excite certain frequencies. Try Diana Krall - Narrow Daylight (from The Girl In The Other Room album) or the entire Bob James/David Sanborn album Quartette Humaine. I have other too....but that's a good start.


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Your room is gorgeous Bob, congrats.

Yes they do look a little too close to wall, but every room is different, tape them out in that spot and then play around with them.

+1000 on the KT150's
 
Mike said:
Bob - do you have a spectrum analyzer that you can use to monitor the peeks of the specific frequencies? If not, I use this one on my iPhone for a quick and dirty analysis. (See below). You may want to get it, put it on the FFT plot mode and have a look. You want to identify where the specific peek(s) are in your room. Mine was 73hz. Above 90db excite which frequencies in your room?

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Thanks for the lead. I've downloaded a couple and just added this one for fun!
 
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