What is the size of your room. I am toying with the idea of getting MM3s myseld, but my room is pretty modest size (13x25), so I am not sure this would work. Your room appears to be about 13 wide as well.
Hi Kevin, Thank you for browsing through my system. Yes, in front I built the frame filled with 4" fiberglass insulation panels and moved 8" away from the front wall. On the side walls beside the speakers I have the same 4" absorption panels built-in and at first sound reflection points I installed the sound diffusion panels - using a different thickness woodsticks (3/4-1.5") and tilted plywood panels. On a back wall and on ceiling I used the RPG self-made panels. Also since my room in the basement I installed a double ceiling with inside sheet-rock layer mounted on the rubber pads. In re acoustical measurement, I have done numerous tests with my audiophile friends. The results were very impressive. The graph was practically flat. Room sounds awesome! Though with such big speakers I am thinking to remove absorption and leave more space behind the speakers. It will substantially increase a depth of the stage. Cheers, Andrew
Hi Andrew - sweet looking system! Love the colour of those speakers. Glad to see that you know the value of a well treated room; too many folks have invested >$100K in gear and then do nothing to treat the room acoustically - damn shame.
Other than the obvious RPG Skylines, what other treatments are you using? It looks like you have something on the entire front wall and side walls - thin absorption perhaps? How have you treated your back wall and ceiling? Do you use an acoustical measurement tool to see what your ears hear and to compare before and after treatment effects?
Never heard of those speakers but they look like they should provide some serious firepower!
Th symmetrical driver array in particular catches my eye. I would expect that to help produce improved coherency and imaging in most rooms for a speaker that size?
Also, I have read these are constructed using Baltic Birch which I suspect makes these one of the larger and more serious designs out there I have seen using that particular wood, which seemingly has a great rap for use in building speakers.
Gotta sound pretty darn good I would guess!
Do you have any good source material to play on that R2R deck? That could be the "Pièce de résistance".
Hi Bill, sorry for delay in response. Actually my RPGs are custom made (by myself). I glued each panel to the MDF panel and screwed to the vertical frame which mounted on rail over the screen. So I can move a side the frame with RPGs when watch movies. Cheers, Andrew
I was thinking about adding 2 Skylines onto the plasma screen TV that is about the same distance as your screen behind my MM2's. How did you mount them together without velcro on the screen?
Great stuff!!! Do you really use the REL? (To be fair, i use my Velodyne DD-18 with my Wilson X-1/Grand Slamms...but it is cut off around 35hz...so i dont use much...but it makes a difference.)
First I've noticed fuzzy focus. Especially on vocal parts. I tried different type of material - absorbtion panels, diffusion louvres. Not good... With RPG I think I hit the target. Perfect focus and stage. Also a hight and not more than one panel width matters a lot as well. Covering a whole screnn made it worse. Cheers!
