So I have a very small, impromptu session coming up soon, where critical listening won't be a real issue... is there any reason I wouldn't want to put my monitors up close to the ceiling on shelves until I get the floorplan sorted out?

It's a fairly small room, about 13x12x8, I will be installing shelves on either side to the room, on either side of a chimney, and I figured I can put my monitors up there for now, maybe even corner mount them so they will be in an eighth-space.... or I can pull them in closer to the chimney...

Any thoughts, concerns? I just don't have the floor-space right now until I get rid of a couch and get everything else set up. FWIW: They are Snell Ks, which are sealed, two-ways...

I'm just not getting tired of pictures of this room

Maybe you should wait until Rick Wakeman moves out before you do anything.

TylerDeadPine wrote:I'm just not getting tired of pictures of this room

Fuck yeah, I bet those monitors are gonna sound fine if I'm staring at the sci-fi Wizardscape over the V4 Monkeyshines Fireplace.

Sorry, not helpful, but sheesh I really cannot wait until this Death Star is fully operational.

Welcome back!

Nate Dort wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:28 pm Maybe you should wait until Rick Wakeman moves out before you do anything.

haha! vicious

TylerDeadPine wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:37 pm

Nate Dort wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:28 pm Maybe you should wait until Rick Wakeman moves out before you do anything.

haha! vicious

Haha

Is that a gong bass drum I spy in the back-40?

This doesn't sound like a time for measurement mics. Put them up there, play some music, sit where you'll be sitting and listen. Move them down temporarily onto something flat near the wall and listen again.

If option A is really weird go back to the drawing board, but it might be good enough for now. Generally moving speakers closer and farther from the wall moves around the nodes. You might get closer to low mid resonance closer to the wall and deeper into the bass as you move them out. This is all A. theoretical and B. more fussy then you care to be while in a transitional setup.

My eye immediately went to the gocco box.

Bass builds up in corners, so the closer to the ceiling you get, the bassier the response will be, It'll be even bassier if you have them near the wall corners.

If it were me, I'd put them on a shelf that's around ear height when you're standing, right on either side of the chimney.

Nate Dort wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:28 pm Maybe you should wait until Rick Wakeman moves out before you do anything.

LOLLLL.

Teacher's Pet wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:14 pm over the V4 Monkeyshines Fireplace.

That's a Jupiter. B-22X? Or B-42X? Dont remember but ive worked on it.