Nice job on your posts - great detail. I own the same speaker as you know. Three things come to mind,

* Get two packages of Fostex sound reflectors and place 3 in each upper horn and two in each lower. These will stop, I mean stop, your roon overload issues. Email me directly or call for placement of the reflectors.

* Try Paul Speltz's anticable for $10 foot. Money back 30 day trial. You must put this on your Cain's. Ask Terry about this also. Huge step up for very little money.

* Place only one approx 1 inch thick and 8 inch X 6 inch square piece of Dakron in the upper horn sections right behind the drivers. Yes, reach in and play!

* Get a Wright Sound preamp. Use the high gain setting and your system will make you cry over the music's emotion and depth. I am getting wonderful depth.

* One more important thing. Get them off your floor. Isolate them by placing them onto a 2 inch thick maple board or concrete paver. I place those little discs on the underside of the pavers/maple boards so the plateform slides easy. I can then move the speakers back when I need the space for guests or for placement tweeking. These are the same discs advertised to place under piano's for moving/sliding around. This will greatly help reasonances which fuzz your sound now.

I love these speakers. My speaker set up is like yours. I am against the back wall with Echo Buster sound panals behind me. The speakers are 5 feet from the wall behind them however. This greatly helps depth. My room is 22 feet long so I sit about 16 feet back from the speakers. 8 feet apart and toed in slightly. Your right-on about the impact of toe-in.

I am sending you pics.

grannyring July 09, 2005 09:57

Nice system! Those speakers love SET amps as I own the same speakers and drive them with Wright 3.5 monoblocks. I also have the Baily sub. It took me many weeks to get my system to sound the way it does now - glorious! I would be glad to give you some ideas on what works with these IM Ben speakers - tweaks, placement etc..........

I tried SS amps and they did not sound nearly as good as the Wrights. See my Virtual System also. These things below really helped my system as am overjoyed with my system and these IM Ben speakers.

- Fostex sound reflectors from Madisound (placed in the horns) I use 3 in the upper horns and two in the lower.
- Paul Speltz anti-cable (speaker cable)
- Place them on concrete pavers
- My room is close in size to yours. Sit back pretty far from these speakers. At least 10-11 feet. Toe them in slightly.
- Place a little bit of Dakron in the upper horns. Just one piece about 7X9 inches or so.(inch thick)
- SET amps. SET amps, SET amps..............
- I set the sub to come in at 60-70 and turn the output to 11:00 -12:00 noon.

Let me know how it is coming.

Bill

grannyring June 12, 2005 05:16