Originally Posted by
Pogre
I have several different pairs of speakers that I've collected along the way, finding cheap deals on Craigslist. Most of the time I resell them and sometimes make a small profit even. Mostly I break even tho, which is fine for me. I love this hobby and I get to try out different speakers at home basically for free.
One of the ones I kept are a pair of Infinity IL30s, which I picked up for ten bucks! I don't know if anyone here is familiar with Infinity's IL line, but they're really good speakers for their price when new, and measure very flat and neutral. I just love them. Mainly because I only paid ten bucks for them, but boy do they sound nice as well. So where ami going with this..?
I love those Infinities, but they don't compare to my Sierra Ribbons, which are the best sounding speakers I've had in my room to date. The thing is, it seems like I have to bump my upper frequencies a lot more with the Sierras than I do for most speakers. When I run Audyssey XT32 it seems to agree and wants to really bump up the higher frequencies for the "Flat" setting.
16 kHz +6 dB
8 kHz +5 dB
4 kHz +4 dB
It continues to taper down to 1 kHz, which is -1 dB. Audyssey doesn't boost any of my other speakers that high. This is the same system, same room and equipment, but the Sierras are further back (about 14.5 feet from mlp) because when I pull my other speakers out to listen I set them up in front of the Sierras. Then I just pull the nanner plugs out of the Sierras and plug them into the other set. So that does put the IL30s and my other speakers about a foot and a half closer to mlp. I've also measured the fr from my seat with Audyssey on and the boost isn't showing up on my charts. It does not tilt up at all, and definitely not by 6 dB.
Anyhoo, a 5 and 6 dB boost at 8 and 16 kHz seems pretty excessive and makes me a little nervous because I do like to turn it up every once in a while. I don't wanna blow a tweeter. I did try limiting Audyssey to only below 500 Hz, but then the Sierras seem a little flat and lifeless to me. I am missing those higher frequencies.
Is it toe in? The further distance? I prefer the sound I get with Audyssey's correction but at the same time it's adding a lot of boost to get there.