Recent content by MarcT

A mechanism is not the issue here.

I'm not trying to couple them to the carpet via the spikes. I'm trying to couple them to the concrete slab under the carpet and carpet pad.

KEF Q7/Q11 Meta spike kit -- does anyone have experience with adding these spikes to their Q7/Q11 Meta towers? Since buying my Q11's over a month ago, they have been sitting on my rather "cushiony" carpeting in my family room, shod with the standard rubber footers. I noticed that if I push on...

Wow, I could have written your same exact question, as my system is in our family room and the location of the speakers is pretty much determined by the layout of the room in terms of the doorways into the room. The doorway on the left prevents me from bringing the speakers very far away from...

I recently got a set of KEF Q11 Meta for use in our fairly "dead" family room and have been listening to them for three or four weeks now. I'm not a measurements guy, but I can tell you the highest frequencies seem to be pretty tame. Unless I'm right on axis, I don't hear them too much...

Yeah, I'd prefer a floor standing speaker; I don't want to have to fool with stands in the family room where my system is. I guess glowing reviews can tend to do their job and if you're not careful, convince you that that speaker is an indispensable choice. Btw, I am in no way saying any...

Hmm, after watching Erin's review, I may be back on the MoFi 888 track. And no need to buy stands with those, so they would represent a significant savings over the 1528.

Ah, cool. I've been waiting for his review, will check it out.

My issue with mine was that 16/44.1 content just didn't sound good. I can't really explain it but the review noted high distortion for a DAC/preamp. Some people say you can't hear that distortion, but something didn't sound right or good to me. It did seem like higher res content like 24/96 or...

You know, I played them pretty loud when I first got them and I wasn't sure how much I liked the sound. But the problem may have been that they are in our family room setup and not an ideal listening environment at all. I'm now playing them at low to moderate volume and they sound great like that.

Thanks, would the Q Meta towers be expected to have lower distortion than the Q Concerto Meta?

Wait. Is it really 10 dB higher? At what sound level is that? I wonder if you only listen at moderate volumes it will be a perceptible difference? I do run my Q11 Meta's full range for two-channel music and I play a lot of stuff with deep bass and kick drums.

Maybe if I win the lottery, I'll get some R7 Meta's!

Yes, we've been watching the NBA playoffs and the TNT audio has the front L/R channels absurdly loud, relative to the center channel. This results in the crowd noise completely drowning out the play by play guys. Interestingly, when I switch my TV audio setting to the internal speakers, I...

Well, yes, but here's the thing. With a center speaker, the most important thing is dialog intelligibility. My wife and I both have age-related high frequency hearing loss and have a devil of a time understanding the dialog in movies. The Q series is rolled off a bit in the highs and I think...