Having lived with a complete Vicoustic fit-out for the past 18 months in Berlin, I knew before flying out to Lisbon that I couldn’t go without in the new place. Your grandfather’s Winchester is not a bass trap and his footstool is not a Helmholtz resonator.Ī decent-sounding room is an essential tool for anyone professionally assessing high-performance audio equipment. That amount of reverb, clearly audible in both hand clap and voice recording tests, is far higher than the amount recommended by acoustic professionals: between 0.3 seconds and 0.7 seconds from 300Hz to 4kHz.Īnd whilst we didn’t completely disprove the acoustic utility of a rug in that previous post, we poured cold water on the audiophile community thinking that conflates the addition of a rug (and assorted heavy furniture) with proper room treatment. In a recent post, we established that the midrange and high-frequency reverb time (RT60), as measured at the listening position in my 4m x 7m Lisbon listening room, clocks in at an average of one second. Furthermore, already knowing that two subwoofers from GoldedEar were about to come down the pike, the Canadian shoebox amplifier got the nod. With the world’s most popular vinyl storage system on my mind, I also had to choose which room correction-capable amplifier would make the 3000km road trip southwest: the Lyngdorf TDAI-1120 with Room Perfect or the NAD M10 V2 with Dirac Live? RoomPerfect makes lighter work of pulling a subwoofer into the room-corrected frame but the NAD has a large colour display and delivers a fatter, punchier sound to make it better suited to a broader range of loudspeakers. Unwittingly, I had put together a collection of Kallax-Fi for its new life in Portugal. That big box choice then meant that the rest would have to be smaller pieces: KEF LSX II + stands, Sonus faber Lumina II, Technics SL-1210GR, Buchardt A500, Meze 109 Pro, Rosson RAD-0, Chord Hugo 2 + 2go, RME ADI-2 DAC FS, iFi Zen Streamer and Enleum AMP-23R. The Zu Soul 6 were a non-negotiable as I was near-certain that their deep red gloss finish would look super smart once set down on the Lisbon apartment’s black and white tiled floor. With van space at a premium, I had to be choosy. (I was to greet its arrival two days after it left but my right eye delayed my outbound flight by three weeks). That’s how I moved a few key pieces of furniture, some basic filming equipment, several security cameras and selected hi-fi components from Berlin to Lisbon in very early January.
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