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Is it time to just quit?

Time to just quit?                      
Buying audio stuff?                             
Posting to an empty house?                          
My gut feeling is no one is posting in the regular 'free' threads. Maybe they all are paying to post? I could not know, since I am way too cheap to pay to just post 'exclusive'.  Being natural paranoid, I think everyone is posting over there, not here?                                       
Then I also just hit my limit on credit card Paypal. Now I have to become "verified' or no Paypal.    
This also happened at a fortuitous moment, when I was starting to overspend...             
So no buying OR selling here for me (unless I am willing to get the Paypal CC. Which I have to think about)So maybe the Universe is telling me "Time to quit".???  
Not quit listening to music, just NOT buying more stuff and NOT posting more gibberish.
elizabeth
elizabeth OP
6,726 posts
 
I have had my speakers in approximately the same position for many years. When I got a new (better) DAC i was using a great recording to dial in the location. This entailed slight movements of only a few inches, slight angle adjustments. Still within the average placement of my previous Magnepans. Now I have the spot written down (so I can move them and get them back quickly) 18" (touching edge from side walls. inner (tweeter) edge 42" from back wall, outer edge 58.5" from back wall. I did move them two inches father from the side walls a few months ago.. a few recordings just had too much separation. (The two inches did not harm the ones that were fine with the old wider spread.)                  
IMO sometime it pays to try something new. Sometimes the grass is green right where things are.
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lak
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@elizabeth if you don't mind me asking what was the great recording to dial in the location of your speakers did you use?
I'm always looking for good ideas.
Thanks in advance...
reubent
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@geoffkait - Hey Geoff. I was looking on Amazon at the track list for the XLO Test CD. I don’t see any particular track called "speaker position". Which track do you use for setting speaker position? Also, are there instructions, regarding placement of speakers, in the liner notes for the CD? BTW here are the test tracks listings:

1. Technical Tracks: Channel Identification
2. Technical Tracks: Voice In-Phase
3. Technical Tracks: Voice Out-Of-Phase
4. Technical Tracks: Clap Track
5. Technical Tracks: 3 1 5 Hz Test Tone
6. Technical Tracks: ’Prof.’ Johnson Does Something Spatinal
7. Technical Tracks: Demagnetizing Sweep
8. Technical Tracks: Demagnetizing Fade
9. Technical Tracks: System Burn-In
10. Music Tracks: Mono, In-Phase
11. Music Tracks: Mono, Out-Of-Phase
12. Music Tracks: Stereo, Out Of Absolute Phase

Thanks.........
elizabeth OP
6,726 posts
 
Ani DiFranco Same title album, (debut) 1990 Righteous Babe Records. For a first album amazing clarity and from the sound... $$$$ recording equipment used.                           
Typically 'unknowns' first recording get ho-hum to poor recording equipment and damaging mastering for the first album. Not here.                             

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geoffkait
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Re the XLO Test CD, the “speaker placement track” is the out of phase track. The instructions are spoken by Professor Keith Johnson, “The best sound will be when you hear the sound coming from all around you, with no particular direction. The best sound when you’re in phase will be when you have the most diffuse sound when the system is out of phase.”
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