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honestly seems like these guys are speaking from the perspective of the typical audiophile which I appreciate!

Thanks bob for yours explanation and sharing, I followed your step and get a magnificent sound 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

They are just trying to sell something to the people that will buy it. Consumerism.

13:55 The guy sleeping during a tense exchange is hilarious.

John I super enjoyed this presentation. Met you during your Hi Fi News days in England. Didn't realize all of this - thanks! Gary Eickmeier

Anyone interested in a bottle of snake oil?

This is what happens when you create a standard with the industry in mind not the consumer. It seems to have been designed so that streaming providers could claim "hi res lossless" on a lossy product that would save them a ton of bandwidth costs (bear in mind, that while a giant like Netflix can stream 4K HD etc they've achieved this by providing thousands of media servers to ISPs around the world so they can get the content as close as possible to the edge to keep bandwidth costs down). Now that Tidal dropped it and went back to FLAC I guess we've moved on and bandwidth is cheaper than it was 5 years ago. Good riddance MQA.

I smell BS regarding stereo image moving around the room. If speaker positioning is that critical then so is listening position.

I think Bob is perfectly right with his story, but it’s also about how important the setup is for a certain listener. I’ve got a nice €20.000 hifi setup and a weird room with different listening positions. The sound is ok, no sweet spots or something, but when I go to a live band the music comes from a PA system that isn’t properly setup, most speakers are at the sides of the podium, sometimes hanging at the ceiling etc. Same thing at a theater, concert hall, it isn’t perfect most of the time. But I guess when you have a special listening room with a listening position you can get it perfect like head phones for example, if you take the time to get the right angles of your speakers.

When he was talking about Vanguard and said how they were originally done by RCA, and I knew he going to say how Columbia took over, I realized how much of a dork I am.

My dealership called me at the end of the video to say my delivery for the Falcon Acoustics LS3/5a BBC 15Ω Gold Badge is today!😄

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Respect to Bob. He's still replying to comments on this 9 years after the fact. Im going to try this in a few different rooms, with varying equipment. If the results are there, I'll refer clients and installers to the website to make that $50 purchase. Should be an interesting few weeks...

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Elmer Fud is quite the audiophile

Thank you for recording this!

Great seminar! I think listen with your ears and let them determine is the way in the end. But the measuring and all that is really hard to just let go and disregard. I mean the technical aspect is in part some of the fun too. So I think mixing the ears with technical OCD stuff is the middle ground. Tbh I probably couldn't live with having the speakers standing asymmetrical even if I thought and knew it sounded the absolute best. But I could live with the speakers standing symmetrical and still have 95% of the asymmetrical sound quality.

Thanks to everyone there! DSD is awesome!

This video is a treasure!

I've just bought your guide. Usefull information. I have an openbaffle with full range driver on each and for the moment. Lii audio F-12. Sound excellent. But my bass need boost. Before the configuration do I need to equalize with dsp for best result, or just keep the speaker as it, no equalize . For my right speaker. I have a door behind. Does I need to keep it close or open for the setup ?. My room is almost 13 feet by 10 feet. I use the long side for wide possibility and less side wall reflection. Does it will be a better option to go with the short wall ? This is a small room used for my music, TV and PC and I think if my speaker is too close from listening position then this will be deceiving. I hope I can do excellent result. I'm going to try this tomorrow. Can I wait to place my acoustic panel (absorber) before the setup is done, or the acoustic panel must be there before setup ?

After watching loads of videos the only constant method is Distilled water and a soft cloth. No one argues about that.

Wood glue may be a kind of joke, but PVA-based glue works. There had been (or are) commercial products for the purpose, they do not say their products as pva-based though.

Qobuz and spotify pay artists very little , whereas Apple Music pays artists the most.

World's First Granite Open Baffle Speakers from MACO Acoustic are Revelatory ! This changes everything....

27:25 Rake angle

All right... After a few days of trails and errors I actually got the center locked in. The sensation of the floating head did happened and it has to do with the right size of the mouth, the vocals. In my case was a matter of moving the left speaker a few inches into the room, horizontally

Very good talk here. The MQA people are total crooks

I was researching products to clean vinyl. I watched videos with Charles Kirmus on his restoration system. After watching this video it was clear to me that he will say anything to sell his product. I went with a vacuum system and I'm happy.

Thank you sir! This is simply the best upgrade to my system. Brought the speakers closer together as you suggested for the slightly warmer sound i wanted and it worked wonderfully. What really did the magic was the rake and toe-in method. The vocals now sing beautifully, and my room is awash in room-filling music. When i close my eyes the speakers melt away. And yes the speaker placement is not perfectly symmetrical.

Rob Watts claims that he is obsessed with getting both the numbers and measurements right. In that case, we should all be asking: What have you been measuring if you claim that we can hear the difference? In other words, you cannot improve upon something unless you can measure it. Even if what he claims (more musicality, depth, timbre, etc.) were true, as an engineer, he must know what contributes to it. Otherwise, he is aiming in the dark every time he designs something new, unless he is deliberately keeping a major secret to himself regarding audio perception that no one has ever decoded thus far, of which I am very skeptical.

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Listening toyou islike listenting to jesus it seems too easy too simple almost not possible but it is reality of the right questions right answers the right way its all about listening with your heart to find your answers in life

Great presentation. Very poor audio management on the day.

I’m going to give this a try, but I’m having a really hard time believing in the method with the lack of explanation and attention paid to the starting seating position since it makes such a profound difference in the end result.

You are a true professional. This might be the single greatest music related video I've ever seen in my life. I came here to simply learn what MQA actually does, and instead I witnessed a complete bait presentation to an audience of MQA employees and/or "take-it-to-the-grave-ers" who proceeded to attempt to interrupt you and discredit you at every turn, twisting your words, attacking you, turning it from a presentation into a mass manipulation- MQA is literally like the mafia or something, first they use intimidation tactics to start and by the end are outright lying and beating you down to get you to give up. Fuck these people and I'm so glad that now, in 2023, everyone finally knows across the board what was really going on. This got me gassed up for 40 whole minutes. God bless your soul Chris, I hope this didn't fuck with your head and you moved on, and if you didn't I hope you can now because man this is some sick shit these old fucks are doing to force their lies onto the consumer. It would have gone so much farther and would have gotten so much worse if people like you never spoke up and came to the forefront. CHRIS FOREVER!

44:18 dude that is CRAZY. I just got done moving my speakers trying to find a good spot. One speaker is in a corner and the other speaker is like 8 feet from it’s side wall. Sure enough, the speaker that is in the corner ended up further into the room just like you said.

Like so many of these instructional video, if you cut down the jabber it would limit the time to half.

David Salz, this guy is amazing, and can responce one every question. The master mind

Ive just finished doing this setup and HOLY SH!T! You wasn’t kidding, ive got a crazy holographic soundstage thats huge, it feels like i could reach out and touch things. imaging is so precise and clean, bass is just right. Ive had my speakers set up pretty good over the years but this is worlds away from what im used to, that soundstage just made me laugh out loud with joy. My speakers are different distances from the front wall by roughly 3” with mild toe in at different angles to each other. Thankyou!!

The grill cloth has very little effect upon the sound of the LS3/5A. It can't fix that major flaw - the 200hz to 400hz dip.

At least it plays music! Unlike those audiophile power cords which have zero effect upon the sound.

The LS3/5A does not deserve a cult following. It is an old very flawed design beaten by present day speakers that cost way less!

Tuning a stand to the LS3/5A. LOL!

Line up and get out your credit cards! LOL!

Falcon if you read this fix that 200hz to 400hz dip!

Polycarbonate caps! What a load of cr*p!

Take a close look at that frequency response graph. It shows the broad 200hz to 400hz dip. This is a severe coloration that shouldn't be tolerated in a speaker costing multi-thousands!

A speaker for the gullible who have more money than brains!

Go to Audio Science Review to read Amir's test of the LS3/5A. Measurements don't lie! The LS3/5A is a dog of a speaker! It is not in the least deserving of being called or used as a monitor. It has a broad dip between 200hz to 400hz and poor off-axis response! In 1977 when I first listened to it the price was $430. That new pairs are selling for $3K+ is ridiculous! It ain't worth that much! Another example of the insanity of audiophiles, like 8 watt SET amps and $5K+ phono cartridges.

I may have missed this part but in the first step when adjusting the bass (distance from front wall) should we have both speakers playing or just the one we are moving backwards and forwards?