Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater After the speaker purchase - advice?

You might be sorry you asked. My small mishapen apartment is full of clutter.

http://www.8th-day.org/ht.htm

You see my Axioms and the two main impediments to great music listening! Just kidding - my wife and daughter are GREAT! Best "things" in my life by far!

The room is the biggest impediment - about 25 feet long and 7.5 feet wide, with an odd shaped place where the left speaker should go.

So, did you move the TV to where the couch is in the picture?

Could you just set the center channel next to or underneath the TV?

No - My wife wants the window to look out of. My thought is I will move the TV there when I want to try the HT experience. One day a flat screen HDTV will add to the HT experience, but hopefully by then we will have moved into a regular shaped bigger apartment. (We will move in the next year or so to a living room almost twice the size).

Photo from today added (the other one was from 2004 I think).

What's cal-cool-us?

(name the movie)

Don, the usual suggestions are to have the main speakers separated about as much as your listening distance from them, to have them at a height where the tweeters are at ear level, and to have them slightly toed-in so that the tweeters point at your ears. Now some of this might not be practical in a specific room(such as your narrow apartment), but things like upside-down placement(as I've mentioned in the past)or tilting the speakers so that the tweeters point at your ears regardless of their height, can help. Also try to have the front edge of the speakers flush with the front edge of their support, not recessed.

That was a decent movie (Stand and Deliver). Lou Diamond Phillips I think. Funny story, when I was in the Army, some of my soldiers were building a temporary ramp. They were arguing how much dirt they needed to "get" to build the ramp. One guy measured it, did some simple calculation and told everyone else "we need XYZ"

I spoke to him later (he was not in my platoon) and found out that he was a math major in college. Joined the Army to help pay off the student loan. I spoke to his platoon leader and was able to get him an OCS slot.

Looking back, I wonder how much he must have cursed me while going through OCS!

Who says math doesn't pay!

oh, by the way - FMB should be here in a day or two. Stronger support, better aim, better flexibility.

Your room does present challenges, tweeking the distance and spl calibration settings may also help.

Thanks, all

I played some Mark Knopfler tonight - wow does he sound good through the M22s!

amen.