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Default Ways to make speakers go anywhere.

Peter Wieck wrote:
On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 5:52:02 AM UTC-4, wrote:

Are there any speakers that will work well without being placed well?
There's a lot to be said for smaller (so more domestically
acceptable) main speakers with separate subwoofers.

http://www.wghwoodworking.com/audio/...rPlacement.pdf
http://www.wghwoodworking.com/audio/...production.pdf


I sat on my fingers for some time before answering this one. Lots of
snarky stuff came to mind, none of which was worthwhile.

In my office, which is in a basement, carpeted and with a low
acoustic-tile ceiling, 16 x 11, I am using an AR Athena system (
https://img.usaudiomart.com/uploads/...32ae7887.j pg) with a Dynaco ST35/PAS3X 17-watt tube based combination. Which
works very well. My Granddaughter has my Revox Piccolo sub-sat
system in her under-the-eaves room in a 200 year old farmhouse. Also
works very well driven from a Revox A720/A722 combination.


Yes, vintage audio can be very lovely, but the problems described are
to do with physics, not systems.

So, there is much to be said for sub-sat systems (that are
sufficiently robust in the bass) in very awkward rooms. But the
bottom line is that were I to be able to place speakers as simple as
the Dynaco A25 properly


Well, yes, and that's the point: what do you do when you *can't* place
the speakers properly? That is the question being asked, after all.

in either of these rooms, they would blow the sub-sat systems out of
the water. That I cannot makes them a valid, even a good option.
Needs must when the devil drives.

And any sort of dipole speaker in either location would be an absurdity.

Now, those articles are kinda-sorta beside the point. Interesting,
but not really applicable.


Why not? The first article in particular is exactly to the point.

Andrew.