a giant. do u place at this position?

anyone here used this acoustic foam?
bought from EBest in puchong?

thinking of buying but not too sure how is the quality.

Why you need it?

Received my long waited Marantz SR6011 today, the sales guy told me is the 1st SR6011 in Malaysia


This post has been edited by saitong09: Oct 17 2016, 10:00 PM

need to soundproof my AV room.
the sound is bouncing around a little too much as I only now have my sofa and carpet in there.
need some sound proofing to stop the bouncing and also to reduce the sound going out of the room.

my room is only like 14x12 feet.

get from Begins Acoustic


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Ascend Sierra Towers - Neutral perfection.

Don't have enough time with them yet (only 3 days of listening), but the Sierra Towers and Horizon Center are arguably the most neutral, un-colored, and transparent speakers I've heard in this price range (RM22k+ for all 3 including shipping/tax/blahblah).

I can't find any glaring faults with them thus far. I love the fact they don't color the source, I love the fact that they're very dynamic (okay not horn tweeter dynamic, but not far off either), I love the fact that they don't stress any frequency range for whatever reasons. Best of all I forget that they are speakers, I just heard sound, just pure amazing sound. I believe this is what you call the disappearance of instruments that many "audiophiles" sought for.

Oh and those RAAL tweeters man, that soundstage is just mindblowing. I purposely disconnected all my surround speakers and yet I'm still wrapped in a huge cocoon of sound. The detail they offer btw can be eerie at times, downright hair moving.

If I seriously need to nitpick, I just wish the midbass is a little more engaging. There's a subtle thinness to the 45-50hz region (of which by 30hz, the Towers do start to roll off), where if played on their own, the Towers can falter a little tiny bit. But since I do have subs and I cross the towers at 60hz, this becomes a non-issue at all.

Horizon center wise, I only watched ONE movie (Lights Out) and several episodes of Modern Family lol... so unfortunately, other than the fact that I can say dialogues are mostly crystal clear, I cannot say anymore.

I still have to play with toe-in angles more as the RAAL tweeters are just entirely different to what I'm used to - aluminium and soft domes. Apparently the best toe-in for a ribbon tweeter is no toe-in at all.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Oct 20 2016, 03:35 PM

Nice

dont toe, just face front.
lower mid bass will awake after run in a few weeks if u buying brand new piece

atmos dtsx

strongest effect is pyramid shape. i put 1 piece each side already feel difference. corner bass trap also helpful but need a lot to stack up from floor to ceiling.
wedge dont do anything to my room. given to friend foc.

is not sound proof btw, just stop reverb and room treatment

This post has been edited by ktek: Oct 20 2016, 10:01 AM

lol, still thinking which setup to go. DTS-X and Atmos, which 1 better?

99% sure nothing will change. Dave (one of the owners of Ascend) personally ran my towers and horizon center for about 80+ hours in his home so that he can be sure there will be no driver defects or break up after the 50 hours usage mark. This is to guarantee I don't run into issues since it will be very difficult to return. In that sense, the speakers are already all well "burn-in".

Any "burn-in" from this point on is just my mind playing tricks and getting used to the sound, basically placebo stuff.


Just do both? Why have to choose one over the other?

oh has run already. congrats btw

atmos is top of head,
dtsx is wider side, is it correct?

This post has been edited by ktek: Oct 20 2016, 05:10 PM

The speakers placement are the same for both DTS-X and Atmos? Btw, I'm avoiding ceiling speaker

Dolby recommends Atmos speaker placements to be overhead. DTS recommends DTS:X to be height presence (not wides). However, DTS also said that DTS:X can adapt to any kind of configuration (their marketing talk is that DTS:X is infinitely more convenient and variable than Atmos is).

Months of tinkering on my end, I've found that just placing the speakers as height presence, as high as possible and as close as possible to the ceiling (give or take a few inches off), to the corner trapezoid wall of the room is the best middle ground for both DTS:X and Atmos. Angling the speakers towards the MLP is also important. I honestly can't tell a big difference between overhead and height presence now, I mean it's noticeable but nothing major.

DTS:X sounds best in height presence, while it doesn't sound very convincing in overheads. Atmos sounds best in overheads, but still sounds pretty darn good with height presence. Thus the height presence locations is the best middle-ground for both formats.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Oct 20 2016, 05:26 PM

Where you bought yours from bro?
the offer shared better or yours?

Also another thing I want to ask...
a lot of them have the difference in the thickness.

any recommended thickness?

a kawan bring in bulk. i took some to test before buy.
total spent few hundred there.
i dunno thickness. feel average quality nia.

better brand is auralex

any recommendations for brackets that allow me hook up my bookshelf speakers to the ceiling (for atmos)?

each speaker weighs 6kg.

Safety 1st
I'm thinking of getting Prime Elevation for Atmos or DTS-X