After nearly 20 years, I left Magnepan and went ProAc

audiolover718

There is an expression in England, I think that is where your new speakers are made, and that is " stuff the bung hole " .

They take anything like a cloth rag and stuff it in the port. Should give you a more controlled bass with less resonance in your room. 

I remember when I was younger I had a new girl friend coming over to my apartment, presumable for dinner, and I used my old girl friends panties to " stuff the bung hole ", on my speakers. Not sure how much  the sound improved but I avoided any potential problems, at least for that evening. 

PS. hope that is not too much information..........

" Have you even experienced the Proac D 48 R with Ribbon Tweets"

Do they use the same ribbon as the Futures? I thought ProAc did an extremely good job getting seamless integration between the ribbon and the other drivers.

I think I may have found the most ideal placement in my less than ideal room. I went with a diagnal placement and the soundstage exploded. As well, the response is much smoother. Not perfect, but much better. It is so much better than the short or long wall configurations that’s it’s not even a contest in my room. I’m able to get a finely tuned and focused center image with much better timbre and overall tonality this way. While I still am not getting 100% out of them, I can finally hear what led me to take the plunge on them in the first place.

Now instead of feeling disheartened, I can now focus on racking some hours on them. I’m a little over 200 hours of non stop playing. I listened to Charles Mingus and was delighted. I can’t wait till I hear them at beyond 500 hours and months down the road once they have "matured". They have a certain delicacy, and refinement that even a Maggie fan should hear. They are more expensive than Maggie’s, but they sound it too. There is a certain magic of Maggie’s, but these proacs show that there are other wizards out there designing speakers. Maggie’s are a gateway for a lot of us into high quality sound, many of us start off with them, because of their incredible value, i get it. But you owe it to yourself tombe opened minded and to understand that they are not the be all and all, just because they were your first love.

My Proac Studio 140MK II are in diagnal placement too the right speaker is closer to me than the left one it’s a very odd configuration but this is the best "sweet spote" I could find in my room the soundstage is huge and the sound is very smooth and transparent ,when I put them first at the classic triangle configuration to me with a slight toe in the soundstage is narrow and the sound became muddy and aggressive.
Very strange indeeded.

Don’t worry after long break in and mooving them to a bigger space your Proac will be amazing.be patient !

@audiolover718 ,
Looks like it is time to post some pictures of our system. Happy listening!