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Add Some Aural Ecstasy to your two channel system with a REL S/812 or S/510 sub-base (subwoofer).

from the blog of Oldwaverider

The REL S/812 won the absolute sound magazine ‘Subwoofer of the Year’ award. (See the Jan. 2021 Issue 312)

from Neil Gader, Sep 24th, 2020 product review in September 2020 Issue 308, a few bullet excerpts from the article:

  • The pursuit of the bottom octave in sound reproduction looms as a sort of final frontier for many enthusiasts. It’s a task that’s generally accomplished in one of two ways—by purchasing a completely new set of loudspeakers (ouch!), or by adding a subwoofer (or, as is the case here, a pair of them) to fill the deep-bass vacuum in your current system.
  • The lower ranges of solo instruments like piano and cello bloomed with resonant energy. Solo cello and vocal baritones become chestier and more resonant.
  • Heavy percussion like tympani or kettle drums were reproduced with a frightening lack of compression (be ready), landing in the room like mortar rounds, with devastating pitch accuracy and weight. The S/812 established a firm foundation beneath the music that fortified images and conveyed perspective and scale.
  • When I turned to live acoustic music, chamber, chorale, symphonic, jazz, the promise of the S/812 truly began to be revealed.” End excerpt.

We have the sister sub-base on the floor, the REL S/510 setup in our “Office” listening room, and in stereo. (We don’t have the S/812 on the floor, only the sister)  Come in to do an ABA test.  If you’ve never experienced the sub-base addition to two channel listening, you’ll be really surprised 🙂  Often, you don’t need to upgrade those bookshelves or floorstanders if you already enjoy their tweeter & midrange.  Sometimes you’re just missing the bottom end.  Sub-base speakers allow you to hear all the music the artist intended in the recording.

See the larger photo of the sister S/510 to the S/812 in our office. This is the current system set up in the room. 

Rogue-Cronus-REL-510-Sonus-Olympica-Nova-3-IMG_3485-1500wIn addition to the S/510’s, we have the REL G1 Mark II in their Reference series in our “Transporter” room (in the photos of the slideshow at bottom of page).  We also have the T7i’s and the T9i’s on the floor in our more modest room systems.

You’ll enjoy the visit and the experience!

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How Can You Get Big Sound in a Small Space? – Part Two

Fascinating Transformation in a listening room that sounded noticeably less than excellent, on the first go around!

I learned so much from the experience and from Ed Masterson as we (Ed, Miguel and I) began conversion of this room, set up the gear in the room, mildly acoustic treated the room, tested this room and got so-so results in Round 1 of this room.  And then there was Round 2…

THINK ABOUT THAT FRUSTRATION WHEN YOUR MUSIC LISTENING ROOM DOESN’T SOUND RIGHT.  OR WHEN ANY PROJECT DOESN’T APPEAR TO GO RIGHT. WHEN YOU JUST KNOW (or at least hope) IT COULD BE OR SOUND BETTER!

So, the purpose of this story (Part 1 and 2), is to share an experience about how a listening room that sounded quite horrible at first came around to one of Audiophile excellence. And how a willingness to explore, experiment and be teachable through a bit of Audiophile Cross Fit and Persistence will grant you the rewards in the end of a phenomenal Audiophile Listening Room.  Well, that and someone with a great deal of knowledge from Experience,  Engineering and Audiophile Passion as that of Ed Masterson.

IN PART ONE WE STARTED OFF WITH:

I CAN’T GET THE MUSIC TO SOUND RIGHT IN THIS ROOM!

See Part One here, please see the blog post here.

So to recap from where we left off in Part One:

We did finally get the room tuned in on the South wall with the Wilson Audio Tune Tots speakers, with the NAD M10 Streaming Amplifier and the REL Acoustics T7i Sub-woofer pair to fill in on the base High Level (not LFE), as the t7i’s do go down to 30 hz.  The room sounded fairly good with all the gear setup on the South wall of “The Office”.  But not great.  

So, Ed Masterson canceled our event (our Annual Music Appreciation Event), and decided to experiment with the room some more.

Part Two – How Ed Transformed the Entire Listening Experience in our new “The Office” Listening Room

What would make someone take a nicely set up listening room, that sounds decent, has a nice visual appeal, and then completely redo the room like a wrecking ball?

Someone with a lot of passion and I’ll even toss in the word pride, for how his listening rooms sound when completed. Be it a customer’s home, or one of Ed’s and Our listening rooms in our Audible Images showroom, Ed just wants to get it right.  (See Ed’s approach on our AV Dream Designs page here and the YouTube Testimonial & Approach video here.)

So maybe it was the following weekend after we got the pseudo-tuned room completed that Ed decided to re-arrange.  The room is like 11 ft x 10 ft, and now the equipment would be moved to the 11 foot wide East wall, from it’s former position on the south wall.

It’s actually a much more beautiful view having the gear all placed against the East wall of the room.  It’s a very tropical and artsy feel around here anyhow (our showroom is in what is called the “Eau Gallie Arts District” or EGAD, an area in Melbourne of antiquity and fine art), with some really stunning estates across the street.  And if you really know to look for it, you can see the Indian River through a little corner in the upper right of the neighbor’s property across the street. Occasionally you can even see sailboats anchored in the water behind the house. I’m getting off on a tangent here 🙂

Back on point, the move did give us a few more inches of breathing room (about 6 more inches on ea. side) for the speakers.  Ed set up the same gear, the Tune Tots, M10 and the REL T7i’s with the high level connection. (Note: REL Acoustics provides a very unique, easy to setup, 3 pre-stripped wire connection to the speakers with the Speak-on connectors on the other end that go into the high level connection on the back of the subs, specifically for 2 channel listening.  They also have an LFE connection for a surround setup)

Ed did all this over the weekend.

When I came in on Tuesday, to say I was blown away would be an understatement.  The base was clean, fast, we had a great soundstage, the tonal balance, perspective, were all good and most of all, the listening experience had you melting into total voluntary aural submission in the chair.

Over the next week, Ed did some fine tuning with the room, not to much more of moving gear around, maybe a little, but then he focused on adjusting & lowering some of the wall art canvas pictures to tighten up not so much the base now, but more on getting an even clearer audio image of the different instruments in the mids and highs.   

The room was now ready for our Music Appreciation Event.

Experimentation with Additional Amplifiers and Speakers

Over the next month we started experimenting with a number of speakers and amplifiers, and following the NAD M10 success, we then brought in the Parasound Hint 6 integrated amplifier (a nice sounding piece with versatility too) to hear with the Tots.  Very nice.

Then we brought in the Dan D’Agostino Momentum Integrated Amplifier (which if you have never heard one, is well worth a 100 mile drive to just come hear) and we began to discover that this room, this ridiculously small room was actually quite astounding sounding. The Tune Tots with the D’Agostino Integrated Amplifier and the REL T7i’s for bottom end sounded absolutely amazing.  We then moved the NAD M10 and Tune Tots into our front showroom so folks could hear it out there when they first walked in the door.  Not because we were kicking them out of the room.  We were on a high, just blown away with how good this room was now sounding.  You could say we were in tunnel vision just to hear all the possibilities of this room.

Then we started testing the Wilson Audio Sabrina’s with no subs.  There was actually not enough room for subwoofers beside the Sabrinas.  I heard someone say, that the Sabrina’s, with the dCS Rossini DAC & Player and the D’Agostino Integrated was kind of overkill for this room.  And he was probably right, lol. But it sure was fun finding out that we could put Wilson’s smallest floorstander in this room and hear that Wilson time alignment magic force you into a semi catatonic drooling a little bit listening state 🙂

Now it was time to give the room a Sonus Faber makeover.  We setup the Sonus Faber Sonetto III’s paired with the REL T7i’s, and yes, that sounded excellent.  But I believe the anxious moment was to hear the Olympic Nova I’s in the room, and paired with the REL T7i’s.  They sounded quite awesome, and we also decided, (well Ed decided) that the Olympica’s needed a more closely matched bottom end partner.  The T7i’s are excellent, but they are modest priced subs, and an upgrade in subwoofer was needed to match the lower bass and quickness that one would expect with a higher end sounding speaker as the Olympica Nova I’s.

I know I need to close out this article but I have to share a couple other discoveries of what could be done with this mere closet size of a listening room. 🙂

So, Ed decided that an appropriate upgrade in subwoofers for this two channel setup was a pair of REL S/510’s, and that is when I believe we hit Nirvana (and that is a word I do not use).

OMG, the sound of the Olympica Nova I’s was as good in analogy as the entire Visual and Audio culture that Sonus Faber creates with their speakers in how they are designed to look (lute shaped) and sound like the famous violins made in Italy. Those Olympica speakers that we knew were magical when we tested them out during a demo from Woody our Sonus Faber & McIntosh rep, even though the room itself sounded horrific back then, paired with the newly arrived REL S/510’s matched with the D’Agostino Momentum Integrated Amp and the dCS Rossini DAC & Player was just flat out beautiful to the ears.

You have got to come in to hear this room and these audiophile magnifico speakers. I’m in one of those justified moods using over the top hyperbole.

Lastly, this past Friday, we had our Olympica’s out on loan to a friend, and I asked Ed if we could setup the Sonus Faber Guarneri’s in the new location.  I laugh, thinking back as to how bad they sounded placed on that south wall a few months ago.  The muddiness that was unacceptable to even someone who hates listening to music.  Now with the Guarneri’s on the East wall, we haven’t even connected the REL Acoustics S/510’s yet. (And we almost always have REL subs connected to 2 channel listening, because it allows you to literally hear all the music the artist intended) We got the Guarneri’s setup, roughly tuned in, no subs, just Sonus Faber Guarneri’s on stands.  

The result was a Reward of Irony.  The Guarneri’s sounded absolutely beautiful.  The tonal balance was just right and the spaciousness of vocals, piano, saxophone had a bloom so clean and layered you couldn’t help but smile, and the images were very focused and crisp. And the base was very good, no mud, just appropriate quick accurate base.

An excellent Audiophile experience of Italian excellence.  I mean, everything sounded special in this new room.  And this combination of gear and placement which included the Guarneri’s, D’Agostino and Rossini (even though it’s made in England, it sounds Italian 🙂 , is a culmination of effort that provided us smiles.

Come in to hear it.  Just Enjoy the Music.

Moral to the story, if it doesn’t work the first time, try again.  If it doesn’t work the 2nd time, Call Ed…

Thank you for stopping bye.

Please see the photo gallery below of our progressive experimentation in “The Office” listening room.

Detailed Summary of Lessons Learned Bullets

  • I will be expanding on these bullets in the future. I am anxious to get this story live, but I’ll be back to expound upon what Ed did to transform a room from Dud to Dynamic.
  • Go and Listen to a couple of Listening Rooms like in our showroom to establish a “Reference” of what excellent sound is and can be.  So that you will know what to strive for based on your budget and listening preferences
  • Don’t get stuck on your first or even second room configuration or layout. Sometimes issues may exist that you are unable to see or notice early on.
  • Speaker placement. (will be covered here)
  • Almost a necessity for Subwoofers to be added for two channel listening
  • Room Dimensions and Approach
  • Knowing how to describe what you’re hearing
  • Acoustic Treatment, how to approach it and how it refines but not necessarily defines how your room will sound
  • Matching Gear correctly
  • Asking for help

NOTE: This bullet list I am going to come back to and not only add the details it, but also refine it.  I just wanted to get Part II published and out the door, because it was just so amazing to hear and experience.

We enjoy being your go to source for all Your High Performance to Ultra High End Home Stereo two Channel systems, Modest to Ultra High End Home Theater home entertainment systems.  We also enjoy Audiophiles just dropping in to talk the hobby, ask questions and even pick Ed Masterson’s brain on questions about your system and also about used and pre-owned gear sales, including in which we are also an authorized Audiogon Dealer, to help move your former gear as you pursue upgrading thoughts that you may have now or on down the road.

 

 

Audible Images AV is pleased to be serving: Melbourne, Florida, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Port St. John, Satellite Beach, Space Coast, Vero Beach, Orlando,  The Butler Chain of lakes including Lake Butler, Lake Tibet, Lake Down, Lake Sheen, Lake Louise, Lake Chase, Pocket Lake, Lake Blanche, Wauseon Bay, Lake Isleworth, and Little Fish Lake, along with Bay Hill, The Villages, Lady Lake, Daytona, Kissimmee, Central Florida, the entire state of Florida…and even the greater USA, for all their Stereo two channel and Home Theater systems.

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How Can You Get Big Sound in a Small Space? – Part One

I CAN’T GET THE MUSIC TO SOUND RIGHT IN THIS ROOM!

Ever said that?

In our Melbourne showroom having been around since 2007, we’ve heard our share of stories, frustrations and challenges from Audiophiles, in their attempts to achieve great sound in their chosen listening room and within their desired budget.

You Can Learn To Tune Your Own System – We’re here to help

Some of the questions asked are How can I get really good or big sound in my room? What will it take? What are the issues with this room? Why does the bass sound so bloated?  Why does piano and some vocals seem so bright, as though the entire stage was right in my face?  Is it my gear? Do I need to spend big bucks just to get this room and my music to sound really good? I know so little about acoustic treatment, what can I do?

Negative assumptions you perhaps have made about your room:

Maybe the room is just too small. Perhaps it has so many potentially acoustic reflective resonance issues that would need to be addressed, that the room may be hopeless. Maybe the walls are decked with cutaways and alcoves that are causing the base issues. Books, ceramic art, vaulted ceilings, ceramic tile or laminate floors and lots of windows or a big glass sliding door to deal with that are causing reflective resonance issues. Perhaps it is your home office and it’s the only room you have to work with for listening to music.  It seems your investment in this room just isn’t going to pay off.

Could it simply be that your speakers and subs were not positioned in the exact place that they needed to be? 

Perhaps this was done because your spouse didn’t want the speakers to stick out into the room. Maybe this distorted sounding room was not rectified simply because you did not have the knowledge, patience or know how, YET, to tune your speakers to the room. 

Well, we pulled the trigger for you.  

It is our hope that by the time you’ve read through the experience that we went through in this story, that you’ll gather some of the answers you need to get your sound improvement on the right path.  Maybe solved.  If not, stop in to the showroom and pick Ed Masterson’s brain, he always enjoys sharing ideas with fellow Audiophiles.  Here’s a great video that explains what Ed Masterson and Audible Images is all about.

We took a room (which we now call “The Office”), that at first glance appeared to be an AV Audiophile Consultants nightmare  in trying to get good sound out of such a space.  Note: The blog post photo above is the initial room layout, the one that didn’t work out like we had hoped, but ended up sounding just okay.

  • Ed Masterson, is as many of you know, a very passionate and knowledgeable Audiophile. So in his calculated yet shoot from the hip approach he just decided to take our former Office and convert it into a listening/demo room.  
  • I believe he did it for a couple reasons.  One, it was time to do or add something new to our showroom, especially with an Event we had coming up.  But two, I believe Ed wanted the challenge of taking a room that at first glance would seem to depict some major acoustic challenges and also seemed ridiculously too small for a listening room and yet would address the “Can I convert a small room in my home and end up with a Big Sound?” question.
  • Our purpose here in this blog post: To share that a challenging room environment of a small office 10 feet by almost 11 feet  could be made to sound excellent by proper placement of the speakers and with only modest acoustic treatment and zero use of EQ or room correction systems. 
  • Ed’s Passionate, Engineering  and Audiophile approach to always find a way nailed it, big time. But not the first time around.

Basic Description & Initial purpose of room:

Our former showroom office is the room we used. Important note here is the fact that our entire showroom is a house, not a strip mall suite built for a retail type of store. So the point I am making is that our showroom quite easily replicates someone’s home. We are experiencing the same in home type of issues that you are addressing.

“The Office” (now our 4rth demo room) is a smaller rectangular space typical of a spare bedroom or small home office. It is approximately 11 x 10 feet with a vaulted ceiling that angles from just above the East windows at 9 feet approx, up to 11 feet at the peak of the apex. With two cutout vaults or alcoves. (One alcove is on the west wall , see photos, and the other is smaller and more angled and cut-out above the North wall) Both double windows comprise 94 inches wide by 52 inches tall of wall space, leaving only 3.5 feet of solid wall on the final Speaker wall, and just over 2 feet on the initial speaker test wall. Solid wood floors and artistic textured drywall throughout.

Below is a photo gallery to show you not only the Part 1 final setup, but more importantly, the room challenges, such as the walls, windows and vaulted type ceiling issues and alcoves.  We’ll discuss the mild acoustic treatments later on in Part Two of this story.  We want you to see the actual room acoustic challenges we were faced with in this 1st slideshow.

Acoustic Treatment:

We pre-treated the room if you will, by placing some photos (3 or 4) printed on canvas, no glass just a wood frame wrapped in canvas to absorb some sound reflections. Additionally, the room had 4 Tube Traps that we already had in prior locations within the showroom. Now with the casual treatments in place, we moved a “Silent Structure” rack (one of Audible Images own gear racks) with a polished and rounded marble top against the South wall and loaded it with some existing speakers and electronics gear. 

Initial Sound Results:

We first tested the sound in the room with a McIntosh MA7900 Integrated Amplifier with Sonus Faber Guarneri speakers.  Cranked it up, first test, FAIL, tonal balance was horrific , very poor sounding base.  The base was bloated and had excessive muddiness.  I would also add, very congested sounding, as the bass reflections bounced from the walls and mixed with the newest transient strike of the next note being played, before any proper base dynamic decay could take place.  The mid range and highs couldn’t even be assessed yet. We couldn’t get it to sound right even though we did have a slight trace of a sound-stage. It was clear after re-positioning the speakers multiple times that we weren’t going to achieve a satisfying result, or eliminate the excessive bass resonance & muddiness issues.  Just to feel like we were trying something other than moving speakers, we then connected the Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum II with the Guarneri’s to see what it would do with the base bloat.  Yeah, let’s try a Tube Integrated Amplifier and see if that drops some of the bloat out. Nada, not much difference. So naturally at this point, we went to the bar across the street for some cocktails.

Just kidding.

Now Ed, already knew that this was simply a part of the discovery process of setting up and testing a new room.  So it’s not like anyone was angry, or planning on punching the UPS guy coming in the door with a delivery.  However, we knew we had to reduce some room reflections, since moving the speakers further out from the back wall to get our recommended distance (as shared by Audiophile experts) based on the size of the room was not helping.  Nor did the adjustments of moving the Guarneri’s further in or out from the side walls help with the tuning process.  But then we were saved.  Our Sales rep from McIntosh and Sonus Faber showed up.  Now he didn’t solve our problem, he just happened to bring a wonderful distraction from what we were perhaps to highly engrossed in, and quite frustrated with.  Woody brought in the new Sonus Faber Minima Amator II’s and the Olympica Nova I’s for us to hear.  This distraction brought us smiles, and this was a very good thing 🙂

Our base problem was in no way solved or necessarily reduced, but we were able to hear the beautiful transparency of the mids & highs of the Olympica Nova I’s. And the Minima’s were quite nice but the life-raft if you will of pleasure came mostly with the excellent mid-range and highs of the Olympica Nova I’s.  This distraction was very helpful to me.  (though technically the Guarneri’s should blow away the Olympica’s for the simple fact that they are more than twice the price, but for whatever reason, no go, the Guarneri’s are great speakers, they just didn’t like being in this room on the South end).

Ordered New Gear:

Being in no rush, we put the room on hold until some new floor products arrived.  We had ordered the Wilson Audio Tune Tots and the NAD M10 Integrated Streaming Amplifier .

We were pretty excited to hear the Wilson Audio Tune Tots.  Our showroom was already modestly stocked with Wilson Audio speakers which include the Wilson Sabrina’s, Yvettes and the Alexx’s which are in our main listening room “The Transporter”.  But now we would have the opportunity to hear the Tots with their new custom Isolation Base.  And we had already read a nice review on the NAD M10 Streaming Amplifier which is part of the NAD Master Series.  We have the NAD M17 Preamp/Processor along with the M27 7 channel Amplifier in our modest high end theater demo room called “The Escape Pod”.  And now the opportunity to hear the tiny M10 Streaming Amplifier that is spoken of as having a big sound in a small package was kind of exciting.

We got the Tune Tots placed with their Isolation Bases and on stands.  The M10 was setup on our 2 tier rack, connected, and we then let the testing begin.

What followed? We had a major Audiophile paradoxical laugh!  Now we weren’t getting hardly any base with the new Tune Tot bookshelf monitors on stands.  We went from a massive buffet of base , to starvation from base.  Pretty funny actually.  We decided the Tune Tots could not be to blame.  Partially they could and this was simply because the Wilson upfront frequency specs on them were 65 hz to 23 khz.  Something was causing extreme + or – base issues and for now we could not address it with speaker positioning, mild acoustic treatment or even with a change of three different amplifiers.

Now the pressure was really on.  We had our annual “Music Appreciation Event” coming up in like 10 days and we had a new room that at this point needed to have the door closed and padlocked during the Event.

Some Success:

So, when you have an excellent set of speakers, and an excellent amplifier but minimal base, what do you do next?  You add stereo subwoofers from REL Acoustics.  

We pulled in the REL T7i’s as a pair from “The Escape Pod” room, because now with the Tune Tots we no longer had a bloated base issue, but rather a non existing base issue 🙂  So we tuned the subs in the best we could that day.  The T7i’s could provide down to 30 hz, and the Tune Tots already had that magical Wilson Audio Time Alignment and Tonal balance magic with their mids and highs as depicted in all of their speakers. So after getting the High level volume set with the REL’s, the REL Crossover’s set, we had the room sounding pretty good.

Ed continued to tweak the room via minor speaker adjustments, toe-in, etc, adjusting the modest acoustic treatments, placing sound absorbing objects in the two alcoves above the two walls.

And whallah.  The system was tuned.  The room was tuned.  It sounded pretty good.

A couple of days later, Ed called our manufacturer Reps from Wilson Audio, NAD, Sonus Faber/McIntosh and REL Acoustics and he cancelled our November 2019 Event, and rescheduled for late December.

The room just wasn’t good enough for Ed.  He knew that it was time to completely change the layout of the room.  Good was just not good enough. Not for the Passionate/Audiophile/Engineer/Customer Service mind of Ed Masterson who believes a customer’s high end sound system should be treated like a Doctor monitoring a Heart Patient’s Pacemaker, with a great deal of finesse and care.  And thus the same treatment and setup for a room in our Audible Images showroom.

Summary of How To Get Started in System Tuning including the room we did.

  • Just get started on your room.  Follow the rules if you will that say to place your speakers about 1/5 distance of the room from the back wall.  Even up to 1/3 in some cases.  We did about 1/5. Arrange your speakers and your center listening chair in about an equilateral triangle position.  The chair can be closer to the speakers, than the distance between the 2 speakers.  Experiment a little, because different speakers have different position requirements
  • If you have a lot of window area like we did, close the blinds or shades about 2/3 to reduce reflection.  If you have a bare floor, get a nice simple throw rug with a simple carpet padding underneath it to absorb reflections also.  Remove glass frame pictures on the walls and just use canvas wrap pictures if possible.
  • Add 2 bass traps and 4 if possible, ASC are the ones we used. Pricey, but well worth it. 
  • Use a table or equipment stand that has very low to almost no vibration issues.  We fill our racks with sand and seal the ends with a silicon glue to absorb and dampen vibration issues.
  • If you really want to learn how to get your room sounding awesome, you need to learn the language of good sound.  Why? So that you can describe to Ed or others what you’re hearing or not hearing so that others can help you with your room tuning. First read the ever critical article at Crutchfield: Learn the language of good sound
  • The article in the line above provides an excerpt from the Introductory Guide to High-Performance Audio Systems by Robert Harley , Editor-in-Chief of The Absolute Sound magazine. This stuff is not that complicated per-say from a reading perspective, but it does take time & patience to learn it.  So read the above article and start to learn the terms I list here in next bullet below
  • Sonic Descriptions and their Meanings, Frequency Ranges, Tonal Balance, Overall Perspective, The Treble, The Midrange, The Bass, Soundstaging, Dynamics, Detail, Musicality
  • For terms that drill down in explaining details within the terms just mentioned above, use Stereophile.com magazines Online Glossary called: Sounds Like? An Audio Glossary Glossary
  • And to really take your knowledge to the next level in systems get the hardcover book  or the Kindle/eTextbook (like I have) for: The Complete Guide to High-End Audio Fifth Edition by Robert Harley – $14.99 eTextbook/Kindle or Paperback $24.95. AWESOME BOOK!!!  You can take notes right on your iPhone or Android and it remembers where you left off in the book.
  • We’ll get into other details in Part Two of this story/article.  Ed Masterson has had over 25 years experience building and tuning systems and it is his passion.  Come in, ask Ed questions, and have fun taking your system to the next level!  Miguel and Myself also love this stuff and want to help.

 

THE MIRACULOUS ROOM AND SYSTEM SOUND CHANGE WILL BE COVERED IN PART TWO of :

How Can You Get Big Sound in a Small Space? – Part Two

 

We enjoy being your go to source for all Your High Performance to Ultra High End Home Stereo two Channel systems, Modest to Ultra High End Home Theater home entertainment systems.  We also enjoy Audiophiles just dropping in to talk the hobby, ask questions and even pick Ed Masterson’s brain on questions about your system and also about used and pre-owned gear sales, including in which we are also an authorized Audiogon Dealer, to help move your former gear as you pursue upgrading thoughts that you may have now or on down the road.

 

 

Audible Images AV is pleased to be serving: Melbourne, Florida, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Port St. John, Satellite Beach, Space Coast, Vero Beach, Orlando,  The Butler Chain of lakes including Lake Butler, Lake Tibet, Lake Down, Lake Sheen, Lake Louise, Lake Chase, Pocket Lake, Lake Blanche, Wauseon Bay, Lake Isleworth, and Little Fish Lake, along with Bay Hill, The Villages, Lady Lake, Daytona, Kissimmee, Central Florida, the entire state of Florida…and even the greater USA, for all their Stereo two channel and Home Theater systems.

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Audible Images: Exceptional Audio & Video Entertainment Systems – Video

THE EXPERIENCE WITH AUDIBLE IMAGES : VIDEO

Exceptional Audio & Video Entertainment Systems

Our Showroom in the Downtown Eau Gallie Art District

(Transcript)
The first time we came here was during the design process of our system and I drove by and I said where do I park I didn’t really catch the parking lot adjacent to the house no I think I drove up drove back drove up drove back and finally saw this parking lot but I said what out what a fantastic place in such a nice area so I was really impressed just on the outset of Wow what’s what’s behind those doors. 

Relax and Enjoy A World Class Showroom

Yeah I was actually amazed that that he actually had a store here and I went over there and I got to see stuff that I only read in magazines so you know like the Sonus Faber, Martin Logan, McIntosh so I was very amazed at the products that he had in house the Wilsons and everything.

Real Systems In Real Rooms – Listen for Yourself

The first thing you’ll notice is that it’s a whole old Florida home you get this at no other facility I mean this is different this is you feel relaxed in this place here finally wooden floors the floors what are authentic to the house it is just like you’re in your own living room and nothing is put in place or its touch it’s just like you would put things in corners and that’s how your room is so you can imagine that if you reproduce them by the system what’s there that’s the exactly this kind of sound in your own house.

Trusted – Experience – Advice

Well he says to me it’s really really good then it’s fantastic he doesn’t embellish it and then that’s when I take the leap of faith and I say I think I’ll give it a try and I bring it in you know I live with it for a day or two and I call him back or I shoot him a text and I say Ed it’s really really good.

AV System Design & Installation

So he was involved from the beginning and then in the design of the AV room including all the not only the sound proofing but all the acoustic panels and the cabinet’s where were the the wires go, so the thing with Ed  is that we had a lot of fun always discussing the different options and there’s always lots of different options to them and we still do because I’m never happy I always want to upgrade something rather but the so we have lots of fun talking about it but then knowing that it’s going to be set up right and then if anything goes wrong and just a short text away or a phone call away and then we usually within a day I either Ed or Miguel come over and deal with whatever issue or problem I had.

Training Support & Results

In fact today he’s still training me and he’s always there I call him email you know you know few minutes later an hour later I get a call back and he’s always got a good good advice and gets me back on track so they want to get it right and they’ll stick with it and stick with it I can’t tell you how many hours that they spent tuning this thing in and checking this and redoing that and trying that not they’re not happy with that effect I would say their standard for how this theater would have performed audibly exceeds what mine would have been and that’s a pretty good feeling to know that somebody cares maybe even more than you do about how terrific the outcome is.

A Showroom Packed With Our Favorite Gear – From Best in Class to Cost No Object

There’s products for all different price range and Ed kind of covers that so you can come in here with just your wanting to get into your first audio system and He’s got you covered with the best in every single price bracket.

Creating One Masterpiece At A Time

We enjoy being your go to source for all Your High Performance to Ultra High End Home Stereo two Channel systems, Modest to Ultra High End Home Theater home entertainment systems.  We also enjoy Audiophiles just dropping in to talk the hobby, ask questions and even pick Ed Masterson’s brain on questions about your system and also about used and pre-owned gear sales, Audiogon Dealer, upgrading thoughts that you may have on down the road.

 

 

Audible Images AV is pleased to be serving: Melbourne, Florida, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Port St. John, Satellite Beach, Space Coast, Vero Beach, Orlando,  The Butler Chain of lakes including Lake Butler, Lake Tibet, Lake Down, Lake Sheen, Lake Louise, Lake Chase, Pocket Lake, Lake Blanche, Wauseon Bay, Lake Isleworth, and Little Fish Lake, along with Bay Hill, The Villages, Lady Lake, Daytona, Kissimmee, Central Florida, the entire state of Florida…and even the greater USA, for all their Stereo two channel and Home Theater systems.

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Who Needs Sleep

Who Needs Sleep

It sounds just as good as a real concert hall or even better and then you can see the musicians on the screen if you’ve got a concert video and you can actually appreciate it more than if even if you’re in row 8 because you can’t see all the musicians but because of the way they film things and they focus on whenever somebody’s soloing on them you can see how of their finger movements and all that it’s totally an out-of-this-world experience and it’s like, my goodness the only problem I have with it is that I don’t wanna go to sleep because once I start listening to my music at night or watching my concert videos or watching a movie in here I want to do another one and then another one and then all of a sudden it’s 3 o’clock in the morning and I still haven’t gone to bed so I’m looking forward to retirement.”

We enjoy being your go to source for all Your High Performance to Ultra High End Home Stereo two Channel systems, Modest to Ultra High End Home Theater home entertainment systems.  We also enjoy Audiophiles just dropping in to talk the hobby, ask questions and even pick Ed Masterson’s brain on questions about your system and also about used and pre-owned gear sales, Audiogon Dealer, upgrading thoughts that you may have on down the road.

 

Audible Images AV is pleased to be serving: Melbourne, Florida, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Port St. John, Satellite Beach, Space Coast, Vero Beach, Orlando,  The Butler Chain of lakes including Lake Butler, Lake Tibet, Lake Down, Lake Sheen, Lake Louise, Lake Chase, Pocket Lake, Lake Blanche, Wauseon Bay, Lake Isleworth, and Little Fish Lake, along with Bay Hill, The Villages, Lady Lake, Daytona, Kissimmee, Central Florida, the entire state of Florida…and even the greater USA, for all their Stereo two channel and Home Theater systems.

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Rabbit Hole Redux

Rabbit Hole Redux

You know when you get to this level the the cost of diminishing returns is, it’s something that you have to be aware of all the time, and you know to that’s what’s fun about this hobby is you’re kind of chasing that last little percentage is to try to eat that much more out of it and and you know it’s the proverbial chasing the rabbit down the hole so to speak but that’s what makes it fun you’re never going to catch the rabbit but you can keep chasing them.”

We enjoy being your go to source for all Your High Performance to Ultra High End Home Stereo two Channel systems, Modest to Ultra High End Home Theater home entertainment systems.  We also enjoy Audiophiles just dropping in to talk the hobby, ask questions and even pick Ed Masterson’s brain on questions about your system and also about used and pre-owned gear sales, upgrading thoughts that you may have on down the road.

 

Audible Images AV is pleased to be serving: Melbourne, Florida, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Port St. John, Satellite Beach, Space Coast, Vero Beach, Orlando,  The Butler Chain of lakes including Lake Butler, Lake Tibet, Lake Down, Lake Sheen, Lake Louise, Lake Chase, Pocket Lake, Lake Blanche, Wauseon Bay, Lake Isleworth, and Little Fish Lake, along with Bay Hill, The Villages, Lady Lake, Daytona, Kissimmee, Central Florida, the entire state of Florida…and even the greater USA, for all their Stereo two channel and Home Theater systems.

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I’m All In – A Home Theatre of Distinction – Star Wars

I'm All In - A Home Theatre of Distinction - by Rick

I know that this is a home that I’m gonna be in for a while I decided to really really go all-in but I, I think that it’s worth every dime you spend because what else can you spend your money on that can last five and ten and 15 and 20 years and continue to give you that enjoyment and that peace and that escape and to enjoy it and then the share it with friends and family as well and you think about that for a minute it’s pretty cheap relatively speaking so I would highly recommend that you skip the Starbucks everyday put the money in the bank and buy the best stereo theater system that you can begin to afford. [Music]”

We are authorized dealers for many fine lines which include Wilson Audio, Dan D’Agostino, Transparent Audio, McIntosh, Sonus Faber, dCS, HRS, NAD, Pro-Ject, Rel Acoustics, Martin Logan, Aerial Acoustics, JL Audio, Kef, Bluesound, Wireworld, Ayre, Rogue Audio, Sumiko Audio, PSB and more.

Audible Images AV is pleased to be serving: Melbourne, Florida, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Port St. John, Satellite Beach, Space Coast, Vero Beach, Orlando,  The Butler Chain of lakes including Lake Butler, Lake Tibet, Lake Down, Lake Sheen, Lake Louise, Lake Chase, Pocket Lake, Lake Blanche, Wauseon Bay, Lake Isleworth, and Little Fish Lake, along with Bay Hill, The Villages, Lady Lake, Daytona, Kissimmee, Central Florida, the entire state of Florida…and even the greater USA, for all their Stereo two channel and Home Theater systems.

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Listen Party – College student Frank

Listen Party - College student Frank Garafalo

Every couple months or so I’ll take my speakers for my bedroom and move them out to my living room and invite a dozen or so friends over, I’d have a listening party, and a lot of them never heard a decent stereo system before so when they actually do you know they’re amazed they’ve never heard anything like that they’ve only heard for their life is the Apple stock earbuds or ear pods and you know kind of blows their mind so I actually had a couple of friends after having an experience they themselves have gotten into audio and I’ve started them out with some small used systems and I’m sure that they’ll grow from there and eventually become a customer of Ed [Music]”

We are authorized dealers for many fine lines which include Wilson Audio, Dan D’Agostino, Transparent Audio, McIntosh, Sonus Faber, dCS, HRS, NAD, Pro-Ject, Rel Acoustics, Martin Logan, Aerial Acoustics, JL Audio, Kef, Bluesound, Wireworld, Ayre, Rogue Audio, Sumiko Audio, PSB and more.

Audible Images AV is excited to be serving: Melbourne, Florida, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Port St. John, Satellite Beach, Space Coast, Vero Beach, Orlando,  The Butler Chain of lakes including Lake Butler, Lake Tibet, Lake Down, Lake Sheen, Lake Louise, Lake Chase, Pocket Lake, Lake Blanche, Wauseon Bay, Lake Isleworth, and Little Fish Lake, along with Bay Hill, The Villages, Lady Lake, Daytona, Kissimmee, Central Florida, the entire state of Florida…and even the greater USA, for all their Stereo two channel and Home Theater systems.

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Even Wives Love It

Byron and Sonja sharing about Byron’s passion. (Actually both of theirs)

Even Wives Love It

I wouldn’t call it my system, her system in fact we usually when I go to places and there is equipment to be chosen and there is a set (or system) I’m usually going for the I would say the most reasonable one and she said well you’re here so just get the best one and be done with it.

Just get the top-of-the-line one because you’re gonna regret not getting it now anyway you’re gonna go home and talk about it so let’s just get it now and be done with it and he is not regretted doing that you know he always comments on you made me buy this but I’m glad that I did because it’s really what he wanted but he was just trying you know just to be polite. I guess to compromise.

Do you know that you’ve been nominated for the audiophiles wife of the Year award?

I doubt that. I enjoyed myself too so it’s not really a burden at all, I love doing it I love going with them.”

We are authorized dealers for many fine lines which include Wilson Audio, Dan D’Agostino, Transparent Audio, McIntosh, Sonus Faber, dCS, HRS, NAD, Pro-Ject, Rel Acoustics, Martin Logan, Aerial Acoustics, JL Audio, Kef, Bluesound, Wireworld, Ayre, Rogue Audio, Sumiko Audio, PSB and more.

Audible Images AV is excited to be serving: Melbourne, Florida, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Port St. John, Satellite Beach, Space Coast, Vero Beach, Orlando, Daytona, Kissimmee, Central Florida, the entire state of Florida…and even the greater USA, for all their Stereo two channel and Home Theater systems.

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Music Therapy as shared by a Customer

A friend and customer shares how Music played a large role in healing from a disease.  Enjoy.

Music Therapy

I think Music actually extended my life I’m just coming out of hibernation as I told Ed and I’ve been dealing with cancer for the past two years and because I was immunocompromised I had to stay in after my treatments or during my treatments to make sure that I didn’t catch anything. Because again being immuno compromised is a little dangerous thing. So to be able to sit on my couch and listen to music or listen to home theater just relaxed me and I think helped me get on with what was a really tedious process of treatment for a malady so music therapy is exactly yeah.”

We are authorized dealers for many fine lines which include Wilson Audio, Dan D’Agostino, Transparent Audio, McIntosh, Sonus Faber, dCS, HRS, NAD, Pro-Ject, Rel Acoustics, Martin Logan, Aerial Acoustics, JL Audio, Kef, Bluesound, Wireworld, Ayre, Rogue Audio, Sumiko Audio, PSB and more.

Audible Images AV is excited to be serving: Melbourne, Florida, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Port St. John, Satellite Beach, Space Coast, Vero Beach, Orlando, Daytona, Kissimmee, Central Florida, the entire state of Florida…and even the greater USA, for all their Stereo two channel and Home Theater systems.

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