I believe it works for some and is the best place to start with any Space Optimisation. I've read Linn's writings on Tune Dem. https://docs.linn.co.uk/wiki/index.php/FAQ_-_Tune_Dem
However, what if you're tone deaf like me? Perhaps I'm not but I'm thinking I might be!
Over the last couple of years I've added 3 different Linn loudspeakers to my listening room. I've attempted the Tune Dem method with these speakers before applying any SOv2. That is to find their 'ideal' location before reverting them to my 'practical' location and feeding that info into SO. I read about people adjusting speaker position an inch this way or that and then even finer tuning down to the half centimetre. When I attempt this, I could move the speaker a foot one way or the other and hear exactly the same thing. It's so frustrating.
Since I introduced the Keltiks last week I've been fannying about (Scottish term for calculated scientific experiments ) with their placement within the room using the Tune Dem method as Linn recommend. Again with little or no success in finding that 'ideal' location.
What I decided to do was create three SOv2 profiles. Two of those were modelled on the speakers being in their 'ideal' location some 0.8m and 1.1m into the room. Then placed back into their 'practical' location before asking SOv2 to do its calculations. The third optimisation was placing the Keltiks in their 'practical' location, some 0.58m into the room and let SO work as though I didn't know their 'ideal' location. So now I have the three different SO calculations but when I switch between them they all sound the same to me. So, what's the point in me using Tune Dem to find the best position when I can't tell the difference in a foot here and a foot there? I'm pretty sure I'm using SO correctly and so I've come to the conclusion that my ears and brain are not working well enough together to use Tune Dem successfully. I let a Linn retailer set up my SO using Konfig's SOv1 when he installed my ASH and AEB-I several months ago. In the end I didn't keep it as I felt a straight SOv2 calculation did a better job.
I know I'm possibly over thinking this and I should really just let the music come to me, flow over, caress and sooth me but that's difficult to do when I'm thinking about it. However, sometimes I find myself tapping my feet along to the music oblivious to the fact I'm doing that. That perhaps is my tell-tale sign that the sound is working for me?
Does anyone have a similar experience and how did you deal with it? Other than getting @Paulssurround over?
Mike.
However, what if you're tone deaf like me? Perhaps I'm not but I'm thinking I might be!
Over the last couple of years I've added 3 different Linn loudspeakers to my listening room. I've attempted the Tune Dem method with these speakers before applying any SOv2. That is to find their 'ideal' location before reverting them to my 'practical' location and feeding that info into SO. I read about people adjusting speaker position an inch this way or that and then even finer tuning down to the half centimetre. When I attempt this, I could move the speaker a foot one way or the other and hear exactly the same thing. It's so frustrating.
Since I introduced the Keltiks last week I've been fannying about (Scottish term for calculated scientific experiments ) with their placement within the room using the Tune Dem method as Linn recommend. Again with little or no success in finding that 'ideal' location.
What I decided to do was create three SOv2 profiles. Two of those were modelled on the speakers being in their 'ideal' location some 0.8m and 1.1m into the room. Then placed back into their 'practical' location before asking SOv2 to do its calculations. The third optimisation was placing the Keltiks in their 'practical' location, some 0.58m into the room and let SO work as though I didn't know their 'ideal' location. So now I have the three different SO calculations but when I switch between them they all sound the same to me. So, what's the point in me using Tune Dem to find the best position when I can't tell the difference in a foot here and a foot there? I'm pretty sure I'm using SO correctly and so I've come to the conclusion that my ears and brain are not working well enough together to use Tune Dem successfully. I let a Linn retailer set up my SO using Konfig's SOv1 when he installed my ASH and AEB-I several months ago. In the end I didn't keep it as I felt a straight SOv2 calculation did a better job.
I know I'm possibly over thinking this and I should really just let the music come to me, flow over, caress and sooth me but that's difficult to do when I'm thinking about it. However, sometimes I find myself tapping my feet along to the music oblivious to the fact I'm doing that. That perhaps is my tell-tale sign that the sound is working for me?
Does anyone have a similar experience and how did you deal with it? Other than getting @Paulssurround over?
Mike.
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