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From: kling@ICS.UCI.EDU (Rob Kling)
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Subject: Re: Speaker stands for Monitor Audio RS952
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Date: 24 Aug 90 13:16:22 GMT
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David,

Thanks for your note ..... in brief, I found your suggestion to tilt the
speakers helpful (& cheap!). I have placed some thick books about
regression  analysis under the front edge .... to see how the sound changes..
On a quick listen, it helps alot ....

Oddly, I had never considered this kind of solution. Partly because I've
never tilted high end speakers back ... and further because these are
spiked into the carpet & I didn't want to sacrifice the coupling .....

(Re distances, I only need to raise them 6-8", and they're 20" from
one wall & 72" from a back wall in an L shaped room with a high
cathedral ceiling ....).....

I knew that Allison designed speakers that would  take room boundaries
into account, especially for near wall or corner placement ...
The speaker I owned before this Monitor Audio 952 was a Snell 1, a
solidly constructed floor standing speaker that had a special design with
the tweeter & woofer at the floor with a special ramp to provide a
known boundary for the sound field to reflect from ..... This speaker
sounded quite fine circa 1980 when I bought a pair,  but were relatively
muffled and bass heavy compared with the Monitor Audios ..... whihc are
extremely transparent and musical, although a bit light in the bass  ....

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Anyway, thanks for your advice about tilting. If this works, it will be
an inexpensive and visually less troublesome fix.

Rob Kling