Need help with a couple reference tracks for balancing
AsSiMiLaTeD
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I have a suspicion that the Pioneer is not balancing the maggies correctly, and need a couple reference tracks to help me get it right. I feel like in my room the sound is 'pulling' to the right...
I need a track where the vocals are set squarely in the center and not pulled at all to either side. I also need similar tracks with the vocals in the left and right channels.
Unfortunately my headphone rig is disassembled at the moment so I can't find them on my own.
Help me out here guys.
I need a track where the vocals are set squarely in the center and not pulled at all to either side. I also need similar tracks with the vocals in the left and right channels.
Unfortunately my headphone rig is disassembled at the moment so I can't find them on my own.
Help me out here guys.
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John meloncamp last cd is recorded in mono. One mic in old rooms, so that might be your best bet
This might sound weird but its also sinus season. Make sure your not plugged up or ears /sinus clogged. With me during this season things sound funny or no bass then I have to pop my ears and the sound comes back.
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I looked it up. The cd or lp is called no better then this. I have the cd and I like it. I like the history behind it and where /how it was recorded also. A 55 year old ampex in the middle of the room!Klipsch The Nines, Audioquest Thunderbird Interconnect, Innuos Zen MK3 W4S recovery, Revolution Audio Labs USB & Ethernet, Border Patrol SE-I, Audioquest Niagara 5000 & Thunder, Cullen Crossover II PC's.
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I'll check out that cd, thanks
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Maybe you've already done this.....but let me throw it out anyway.
Some years ago, I spent many months with my Martin Logans leaning to one side to get images centered. I thought, like you, that maybe something was up with my amps. It was slightly annoying, but while not a big deal, was just there as a bug for way too long. But since I could lean and fix it, I wasn't motivated enough to dig into it.
So much to my surprise and pleasure, one day while doing something else I had a tape measure out and going through things. That's when I found out that my listening chair had worked it's way ever so slightly to one side. Maybe I dropped in from the same direction each time or something. But as it turned out, a couple inches correction back to where it should have been was the answer. Boy, what a bummer that it was so easy and it hadn't occurred even once to me since I'd set it all up carefully originally.
So even though it's almost obvious, it is easy and could just maybe play into what you're experiencing. In any case, hope you get it fixed!
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Planars and stats are a real **** to center and you can very easily get that dominant side if not placed properly. There is a trick I used as I have to move my speakers back to the wall and dont want blue painter tape marking my floor for when I want to listen. Sit in the chair and get your self a laser pointer and with each hand for each side point the laser at your speaker between the 1 3rd and half way of the inside of the speaker. If the lasers pointing more than these marking when you hold out your hand the panels off. With stats it works at exactly one third because of the curve so maggies should be between one third and the middle
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As far as a test CD goes, Gordon Lightfoot's Complete Greatest Hits is a good one. Being a greatest hits album, the songs are from different albums and eras with different recording setups. I was having this same issue with my SRS 2s and this album helped me trememdously with that. Come to find out with the SRS 2s, it was the listening room being un-symetrical that was the problem. I quick turn of the balance knob took care of the problem.
As the others have stated, I would check your speaker and listening positions also. It looks to me on your photos of your set-up that the left speaker is fairly close to the wall while the right speaker has a good bit more space to the nearest sidewall. This very well could cause the imbalance. Maggies are very sensative to their placement and room sorroundings and sound best when being away from room boundaries (side and rear walls). I found when setting up my MMGs that a quarter inch off in placement one way or the other can have a big impact on sound. I use a measuring tape to precisely set them up and when they are set up perfectly, vocals are drop dead center(when they are recorded that way). When set up correctly the imaging is impeccable on these things.
