System now moved from in between the speakers.
And the effect?
Just testing now, staging seems a bit more defined. Also my speakers are front ported so it means I’m now able to push them a little closer to the wall. Worst thing I did was call into my dealer today he encouraged to listen to a 552/500/CD555. I’m still trying to get over that.
That sounds problematic…
Yes and no, tempting yes but I fear the other half would kill me therefore the enjoyment would be short lived.
Thanks Richard, moved my gear around this evening, my speakers now have clear air between them. After some fooling around with speaker placement I now have much better staging an a openness that I don’t think was there before.
There is also a visual effect as well. Not having the electronics in the middle removes a distraction, allowing you listen/focus better.
Bass seems to be a little down but that just maybe the problem with calling into my dealer this afternoon, cruel man made me listened to a 552/500/CD555. Cheers👍
Great new Pete. I’m glad it has given you a performance boost. You might need to play around a bit more with speaker positioning to get the best from the new arrangement, but if you’re happy with things as they are then leave it be - all part of the fun!
it’s nicer now i find. Did the sound improved a bit?
Just a suggestion, have you tried positioning the speakers with tweeters on the inside?
Very nice paintings there Pete. Especially the dark green one near the right speaker.
Doubles up as effective sound absorbers.
Get yourself a spirit level for them
perhaps you should open a post with some pics of your paintings? i like them too
That must be some system if you can locate John Lord’s organ in time and space
yes I’ll straighten them out today.
The speakers are hand made and labeled left and right. Swamping them around brings us full circle, left is right and so on. I will investigate though.
Thanks Rooster, it seems to have made a difference, as for the painting post I’m pretty sure it would be against the rules. I’d probably get a naughty badge
Channel 1=Left has long been the sound industry standard, which as Richard says was the convention followed with the first Naim NAPs. It makes sense when you think of a mixing desk between speakers and the DJ/sound engineer facing the audience.
But if it really is that bothersome, just connect the whole system back to front from input to output which will cure the crossed wire syndrome. I have, on occasion, rigged PA systems that way so that the sound engineer can sit in the midst of the audience. Failing that, just reach for the mono button
Thanks for the heads up, I’ve just noticed that I hadn’t “crossed” my speakers when I’d put things back together. All good now, tweeters are now on the inside. Cheers
Great answer but that would really do my head in. I was being a little mischievous with my original thread. I’ve always had it correctly set up (thanks to my dealer). And since learnt that the speakers were the wrong way round (thank to me). So all good. I’ve learnt something and made improvements to the overall sound.
21 replies before 1) HH found his sarcasm again, who knows where he had left it and forgotten it; and, 2), as far as I can see, anyone took the pain to give a sensible explanation. This is why I am more and more avoiding the HiFi corner.
Explanation one: the most idiot. No-one, except perhaps in a recording studio or a radio station, would keep the power amp with the rear panel facing: if that was Naim’s even secondary option, why the logo, why the finely brushed front panels? The truth is, they started like this 40 years ago and since they are the most snob and conservative brand in the whole audio world, found it amusing to go on with this habit.
Explanation two: the less idiot. If you follow Naim’s suggestion and find a way to keep the system’s rack on a side wall with respect to the one with the speakers, it becomes indifferent if the left speaker actually goes to the right and vice versa, like it happens when the amp is between the speakers. They take the same direction.
Don’t forget (one more useful thing that so far at least, at reply #22, nobody felt the need to tell you) is that the speaker cable, if it’s a NAC A5, has an ideal length of 5 to 7 mt. (for technical reasons) which means that placing the rack on a side wall with respect to the speakers is not an impossible feat. Longer runs of NAC A5 don’t compromise the sound up to 20 mt. The Factory’s Word.
A suggestion: think twice before asking anything you think important here. Before doing that, try to visualize most members as sitting in the reading room of a Pall Mall club with a brandy and a cigar, waiting for the chance to be terribly witty.
Good luck
Max
Re: sentence #2: True, if you’re listening in mono or just to pop music. Surely Paul Wittgenstein wouldn’t have died if Maurice Ravel had written for him, in a moment of distraction, a Piano Concerto for the right hand only.