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Re: [ARSCLIST] Early stereo LPs: subject to mononuclearosis?



Hi, Tom,

No, I don't think the centre speaker is sympathetically vibrating. I just look at it and it seems as if the sound is coming out of it. BUT, when I click and move the signal to it, it the program sounds rather different. As I said, some of it is room, but most of it is head geometry. I think if I rotate my head so one ear is directly on axis to the active speaker, the difference is less, but I haven't played with it too much.

Cheers,

Richard

At 05:30 PM 8/27/2006, you wrote:
Richard, do you monitor loud enough that the center speaker is sympathetically vibrating, thus moving even little air? I've noticed that this can and does happen at loud levels and it absolutely feels like amplified sound is coming out of the center speaker. OTOH, properly placed small monitors in a properly laid out room present a very large and strong center from the proper listening position if they're worth their salt, and I'd say your Mackie's are worth their salt and then some.

-- Tom Fine


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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Early stereo LPs: subject to mononuclearosis?



I find a substantial difference between using the single mono centre speaker vs. the stereo image from my left and right speakers. While some of the difference is attributable to room geometry and layout, I think at least some of it is attributable to head geometry.

I have noticed this before in several different "lashups" and, most interestingly, I find my Ampex 2012 speaker amps to sound different in this way in a variety of configurations.

So, I monitor mono in mono and stereo in stereo.

When I do stereo monitoring and things are going well, I sometimes have to check to see that's what I'm doing as I can sense sound coming out of the centre speaker, even though its bar-graph is showing no signal going to it. So, I think the room is pretty good.

Cheers,

Richard
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