The New Speakers Came Today
Apr. 30th, 2012 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillAnd I spent a couple of hours setting them up. It's not that they were complicated in and of themselves, but the directions said to set them up in the middle of a short wall so I had to move my desk, and level with my ears, so I got my adjustable sawhorses out of the garage, which meant brushing all the cobwebs and shavings off them, and getting a board, and moving the desk meant moving a bookcase, and some crickets had crawled under the bookcase to die in peace sometime since we moved in, so I vacuumed the carpet, and you know how these projects can get.
But I figured the speakers would probably work better if I set them up the way it says in the booklet, and the money I spent on them would be wasted if I they didn't work properly.
I measured everything out, got the desk in the middle of the wall (it's half an inch off, okay? But I moved it five times and I'm done; it's in the middle of the wall), set the speakers in an equilateral triangle with my head (roughly--I didn't actually measure it carefully. But it's about right.) And once I got them set up, I listened to them. They sound nice; I like them fine. Then I listened to my mixes on them.
And I don't hear anything I want to change (yet-I haven't listened all the way through everything.) I actually hear more problems with the headphones than I do with the speakers.
So I don't know if that means I did something wrong, or everything right.
But I figured the speakers would probably work better if I set them up the way it says in the booklet, and the money I spent on them would be wasted if I they didn't work properly.
I measured everything out, got the desk in the middle of the wall (it's half an inch off, okay? But I moved it five times and I'm done; it's in the middle of the wall), set the speakers in an equilateral triangle with my head (roughly--I didn't actually measure it carefully. But it's about right.) And once I got them set up, I listened to them. They sound nice; I like them fine. Then I listened to my mixes on them.
And I don't hear anything I want to change (yet-I haven't listened all the way through everything.) I actually hear more problems with the headphones than I do with the speakers.
So I don't know if that means I did something wrong, or everything right.
