Marco wrote:
My room does indeed sound fine (subjectively) to me - in fact, to my ears it sounds very good. The speakers work with it to excellent effect. However, if I was shown (and convinced) that there was a problem, then I wouldconsider doing something about it, providing the cost wasn't excessive and my room wasn't vandalised byhideous looking'audiophile' room treatments and leftlooking like geekville central
Apologies for not replying sooner - I was searching for pictures of your system. Having found them i'm grateful for other posters having made the usual noises regarding the considerable amount of Mana that you use. Noises that i've heard a million times, and find no benefit adding to, at least in regard to it's use as an equipment rack - regardless of phase count/height. I'd be (am) more concerned with it's use to elevate loudspeakers to the height that clearly removes the tweeter from (or even near) ear level - essential not soley for the potential detriment (to treble output) due to off-axis response, but also summed output in terms of phase and timing coherence that an eminent manufacturer such as Spendor will have taken into account.
I don't know what (specious) benefit Mana will bring used as a loudspeaker stand, but i'd wager against it (when used at high phase/height) against correct (manufacturer recommended) set-up. It's a pity that I can find no response graphs on the Spendor site, which may have better illustrated the point. All that said, I assume that you have subjectively demo'd the difference between ear level on Mana versus it's present level, and preferred the result?.
PS:Is that rug (supposed to be) functional (acoustically speaking), or is it wholly decorative?.
Marco
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But, in general, I'm always up for a bit of shenanigans!
Understatement of the year award methinks