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should be tight and percussive—string bass notes should be uni-
form and consistent throughout the entirety of the run without
booming or thudding.
Tonal Balance—
Voices should be natural and full and cymbals
should be detailed and articulate yet not bright and piercing,
pianos should have a nice transient characteristic and deep tonal
registers. If you cannot attain these virtues, read the section on
Room Acoustics (pages 27–28). This will give you clues on how
to get closer to these ideal virtues.
Final Placement
After the full break in period, obtaining good wall treatments,
and the proper toe-in angle, begin to experiment with the dis-
tance from the wall behind the speakers. Move your speaker
slightly forward into the room. What happened to the bass
response? What happened to the imaging? If the imaging is
more open and spacious and the bass response is tightened, that
is a superior position. Move the speakers back six inches from
the initial setup position and again listen to the imaging and bass
response. There will be a position where you will have pinpoint
imaging and good bass response. That position is the point of the
optimal placement from the front wall.
Now experiment with placing the speakers farther apart. As the
speakers are positioned farther apart, listen again, not so much
for bass response but for stage width and good pinpoint focus-
ing.
Your ideal listening position and speaker position will
be determined by:
• Tightness and extension of bass response
• Width of the stage
• Pinpoint focusing of imaging
Once you have determined the best of all three of these
considerations, you will have your best speaker location.
The Extra “Tweak”
This extra “tweak” may be useful when your speakers are placed
in a dedicated listening room. Use the following procedure and
measurements for your speakers placement to see what can
happen to your system’s performance. These formulas will help
determine optimum placement of your speakers to minimize
standing waves.
1
Distance from the front wall (in front of the listening position)
to the center of the curvilinear transducer:
To determine dis-
tance from the front wall, measure the ceiling height (inches)
and multiply the figure by 0.618 (i.e. ceiling height (inches) x
0.618 = the distance from the front wall to the center of the
curvilinear transducer).
2
Distance from the side-walls to the center of the curvilinear
transducer:
To determine distance from the side walls, mea-
sure the width of your room in inches and divide by 18.
Next, multiply the quotient by 5 (i.e. room width in inches /
18 x 5 = the distance from the side-walls to the center of the
curvilinear transducer)
Enjoy Yourself
The Montis is a very refined speaker and benefits from care in
setup. With these tips in mind you will find, over your months
of listening, that small changes can result in measurable dif-
ferences. As you live with your speakers, do not be afraid to
experiment with their positioning until you find the optimal rela-
tionship between your room and speaker system that gives to
you the best results. Your efforts will be rewarded.
Figure 2.
Final placement.
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