Greg Reierson wrote on Sun, 25 October 2009 09:13 |
Thomas,
Two things. First, it's easy to demonstrate this affect by simply tilting you're head down. HF goes up, for me at least.
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Absolutely, but it's always nice to substantiate a bit
- and also put some indicators on what happens and why. This subject is in fact a very complex one.
I feel that when Mixing or Mastering, engineers need to have a faithful representation of the sound stage. Depth, width... Which obvioulsy contain Azimut and Elevation informations. Therefore in your work environment, you need to make sure the conditions are such that you send the right, accurate cues to your brain. When the conditions above are not met, and it's just my opinion, then the information is distorted - when it doesn't have to be.
May seem crazy to some, but I really give all this a great deal of importance.
Greg Reierson wrote on Sun, 25 October 2009 09:13 |
Second, I use PMC MB1 XBD floor standing monitors. For proper time alignment (which is easy to verify with pink noise and a bit of head bobbing), PMC specifies that the mid driver be at a 10 degree angle up from the listeners ears. At first I found this a bit strange as the image is slightly elevated, but now I find it completely normal. Imaging is outstanding.
What are your thoughts on their approach? Have you every used either the MB1/2 or BB5 in an installation?
Thanks, GR
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I have indeed worked with some PMC speakers MB1 and MB2 - never the BB5. I have both times noticed and heard this problem, which I thought was not acceptable. This is not something I would get used to. IIRC they ask this because the speakers aren't time aligned...
I'm not saying PMCs are bad speakers, but there are a few things in PMC's philsophy that I disagree with and that's one of them.
Take care!