Round Earth and Flat Earth Setups
Round Earth (For Bossa-Nova, Female vocals and Jazz)
AMX EL84
Killer Passive linestage
Primare D20 CD Player
Mordaunt Short MS3.10 on speaker stands
Speaker Placement - Diagonal
Diagonal set-up (Speaker placement)
AMX EL84
Primare CD Player/Killer Passive linestage
REL Strata III - Corner placement across the room
Flat Earth (For Rock and Roll and FUN!!!)
Pioneer Integrated Amp boosted by Tono pre-amp
Paradigm Titan Speakers
Pioneer DVD-233
Speaker Placement - Who cares:)
Pioneer Integrated Amp/Tono Preamp
More on Diagonal Set-up:
http://www.decware.com/paper14.htmIf you HAVE to have a home theater using a big screen TV and stereo together in the same room, then this diagonal setup will largely reduce some of the imaging problems provided you locate the TV as far back in the corner as possible.
More on Round Earth/Flat Earth
From Zerogain forum:
"In essence, flat earth is about pace rhythm and timing (PRaT), the boogie factor, carrying a tune etc with perhaps less importance given to
soundstaging and other such nebulous hifi terms as "air" and "space". Flat earthers tend to promote the "source first" approach, ie, get the best front end you can and the rest will follow. The term flat earth comes because when Linn and Naim first promoted these ideas they were completely at odds with current hifi thinking hence their followers were said to be like those who still believe the earth is flat."
"Round earth is essentially the other end of the scale. "
"There are those who listen for the tune. These people are flat earth.
There are those who listen for timbre and soundstage. These people are round earth."
Some links:
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue19/cleaning.htmhttp://www.pinkfishmedia.net/manifesto/manifesto.htm
