GedLee Abbey's Feedback Wanted!

jtwrace · « **Reply #820 on:** 24 Feb 2011, 03:27 am »

Made a lot of progress with sub integration tonight. Tomorrow night are some more measurements and next week is some more room tuning. Then some more measurments.

Tonight is the best it has sounded by far! It's actually pretty freakin' awesome!

TRADERXFAN · « **Reply #821 on:** 24 Feb 2011, 03:35 am »

So what kinds of things are you doing to "tune" your room?

jtwrace · « **Reply #822 on:** 24 Feb 2011, 03:36 am »

Quote from: TRADERXFAN on 24 Feb 2011, 03:35 am

So what kinds of things are you doing to "tune" your room?

Absorption, Diffusion, Seating position...

poseidonsvoice · « **Reply #823 on:** 24 Feb 2011, 01:41 pm »

Quote from: jtwrace on 24 Feb 2011, 03:36 am

Absorption, Diffusion, Seating position...

Shoot me some graphs to my regular e-mail account when you have time...

Anand.

jtwrace · « **Reply #824 on:** 25 Feb 2011, 01:13 pm »

Quote from: poseidonsvoice on 24 Feb 2011, 01:41 pm

Shoot me some graphs to my regular e-mail account when you have time...

Anand.

Sent.

jtwrace · « **Reply #825 on:** 27 Feb 2011, 02:19 am »

Well, I made another step in sound today. I tweaked with the Phase and delay of the subs.

The system is sound really good!

The best I've ever had in my room regardless of price. Just awesome!

eclein · « **Reply #826 on:** 27 Feb 2011, 04:17 am »

Dude I may just throw my walker in the car and travel your way someday to hear these babies. I bet with your knowledge you got it sounding so good I'd probably wet myself...LOL. My Dad is 93 and lives in Montgomery so maybe I travel by your crib on the way sometime next summer.....i wanna hear what good sounds like to you.
Jason enjoy them, play, place, add, subtract, its the fun of this whole deal...

jtwrace · « **Reply #827 on:** 27 Feb 2011, 11:09 am »

Quote from: eclein on 27 Feb 2011, 04:17 am

Dude I may just throw my walker in the car and travel your way someday to hear these babies. I bet with your knowledge you got it sounding so good I'd probably wet myself...LOL. My Dad is 93 and lives in Montgomery so maybe I travel by your crib on the way sometime next summer.....i wanna hear what good sounds like to you.
Jason enjoy them, play, place, add, subtract, its the fun of this whole deal...

Just let me know....

Bear · « **Reply #828 on:** 28 Feb 2011, 12:38 am »

Jtwrace

What does your current system consist of? What did the abbeys replace?

jtwrace · « **Reply #829 on:** 28 Feb 2011, 01:00 am »

Quote from: Bear on 28 Feb 2011, 12:38 am

Jtwrace

What does your current system consist of? What did the abbeys replace?

Your question was answered here: http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=86403.msg878932#msg878932

Bear · « **Reply #830 on:** 28 Feb 2011, 01:35 am »

Quote from: jtwrace on 28 Feb 2011, 01:00 am

Right before the Abbeys I had a custom 3 way. Ribbon tweeter, Accuton Mid and Scan Speak woofer.

Sounds like a take on the Salk soundscape.....if you don't mind, could you share a brief history of the speakers you have owned and how long?

jtwrace · « **Reply #831 on:** 28 Feb 2011, 01:51 am »

Quote from: Bear on 28 Feb 2011, 01:35 am

Sounds like a take on the Salk soundscape.....if you don't mind, could you share a brief history of the speakers you have owned and how long?

Actually the SS would've been a take on mine as it was much sooner then the SS.

Martin Logans for 10 years then a pair of Final Electrostats, custom 3 way and GedLee.

Bear · « **Reply #832 on:** 28 Feb 2011, 02:59 am »

Quote from: jtwrace on 28 Feb 2011, 01:00 am

Your question was answered here: http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=86403.msg878932#msg878932

Yes, was curious if anything other than your speaker/woofers had changed.

Thanks.

jtwrace · « **Reply #833 on:** 28 Feb 2011, 03:21 am »

Quote from: Bear on 28 Feb 2011, 02:59 am

Yes, was curious if anything other than your speaker/woofers had changed.

Thanks.

Along with the Abbeys?

Bear · « **Reply #834 on:** 28 Feb 2011, 03:30 am »

Yes, along with or since. Looks like just the dcx and subs. Awesome gear btw.

jtwrace · « **Reply #835 on:** 28 Feb 2011, 03:34 am »

Quote from: Bear on 28 Feb 2011, 03:30 am

Yes, along with or since. Looks like just the dcx and subs. Awesome gear btw.

I added the Abbeys with stands, 2 GedLee bandpass subs, Samson pro audio amp for bandpass subs and the DCX to replace my loved Ashly 3.24 because it didn't have a phase adjustment (which I didn't need).

Oh, and a bunch more music. I uploaded 80 cd's since Friday night.

Bjorn · « **Reply #836 on:** 2 Mar 2011, 11:54 am »

Hi Jason. This is one of the few threads I've found with Geddes speakers. I have an order too.
Do you mind sharing your frequency response? And perhaps also an ETC or impulsresponse zoomed in at the first 20-30ms?

jtwrace · « **Reply #837 on:** 2 Mar 2011, 02:55 pm »

Quote from: orso on 2 Mar 2011, 11:54 am

Hi Jason. This is one of the few threads I've found with Geddes speakers. I have an order too.
Do you mind sharing your frequency response? And perhaps also an ETC or impulsresponse zoomed in at the first 20-30ms?

Welcome to A.C.!

There are others GedLee threads here on A.C. but they're just older.

Here is my in room FR with Impulse as you requested. This is with the system as I would listen with the mic at 40" off the ground centered to the waveguide and mic at 0* (not tilted up or down) at the listening position. As you can see this is a raw response. Also very important to point out that I'm NOT using any EQ whatsoever.

This is as real as it gets! I'm currently working on getting some of the reflections tamed as seen in the impulse. This is by far the best overall measurement I've ever had in my room.

Test Equipment Used:
Compaq Computer Running Windows 7
HOLMImpulse
Behringer ECM8000 (Cross Spectrum Calibrated)
M-Audio MobilePre
Mic Boom
Standard XLR Cable for Mic
Standard RCA Cables from output of M-Audio with 1/4" adapter

Smoothed Response:

1/6

1/3

jtwrace · « **Reply #838 on:** 2 Mar 2011, 03:10 pm »

Here are some more measurements.

The first one is from Dr. Geddes as he measures every speaker that he makes.

These are the pictures of the setup of me measuring the pictures below.
Center of Waveguide at 1m

Center of woofer 6" back from cone

Tyson · « **Reply #839 on:** 2 Mar 2011, 05:50 pm »

As someone who's traveled a similar path, I have to say those are awesome results! Many people might look at that and say to themselves "Well, the anechoic graphs I see on review sites are a lot smoother than that!". What they don't realize is that the graphs they see are extremely smoothed (usually 1/3rd octave), and that the room makes a massive change in sound (especially below 500hz). To get results like you have gotten here takes a lot of time and effort, the right know-how, and the right tools.

Nice job!