Thu Oct 29, 2015 9:37 pm
Hello all,
As I reported elsewhere here on the forum, I recently completely tore down and moved my entire Hauptwerk set up, console, amps, re-wiring, everything. It took me 6+ hours to complete the project and this is just an 8 channel + 2 sub set-up. As a side note I'll just say a person really doesn't realize the myriad of wires you have going everywhere until you experience the fun (not) of tearing it all apart after adding to the monster for 5+ years!
The reason for the move was I realized I could benefit from an opportunity for a more strategic approach to speaker positioning over my already extensively tried and true arrangement. Mainly I could realize perfect centering both side to side and front to back from my speakers, whereas before it was all a bit of an off centered compromise but was adjusted to sound very good.
In the past I had reported after several speaker arrangements that I found having the front 3 pairs of speakers up off the floor with the lowest pair starting off the floor at 3 feet and then the other 2 pairs stacked on top and the stacks about 6 feet apart trumped any other arrangement by far offering incredible realism, especially for wet sets. Well of course when you've got everything torn apart it gives a person a chance to once again experiment. All I can say is I had fun experimenting once again with several different speaker arrangements, but I could have saved myself a bunch of time after I got things back up and running.
I ended up with the stack starting even a bit higher this time at about 4 feet off the floor and going up from there. There is now NO question in my mind this arrangement of stacked speakers and about 6 feet apart will clobber any other arrangement and it's a contest that isn't even close! If you have to compromise and put any pairs side by side, have the outer pair 6 feet or so apart and put the other pair right next to them, no space at all between them which is what I ended up doing this time, but they are stacked directy on top of the first pair which is a larger pair routed to the pedal division.
Long story short, stack your speakers in a straight vertical line as best you can, any pairs that end up needing to be side by side due to space constraints then put them right next to each other, but strive for an overall arrangement of vertical stacks around 6 feet apart and starting at least 3 feet off the floor and you will be one happy Hauptwerkian!
Marc
As I reported elsewhere here on the forum, I recently completely tore down and moved my entire Hauptwerk set up, console, amps, re-wiring, everything. It took me 6+ hours to complete the project and this is just an 8 channel + 2 sub set-up. As a side note I'll just say a person really doesn't realize the myriad of wires you have going everywhere until you experience the fun (not) of tearing it all apart after adding to the monster for 5+ years!
The reason for the move was I realized I could benefit from an opportunity for a more strategic approach to speaker positioning over my already extensively tried and true arrangement. Mainly I could realize perfect centering both side to side and front to back from my speakers, whereas before it was all a bit of an off centered compromise but was adjusted to sound very good.
In the past I had reported after several speaker arrangements that I found having the front 3 pairs of speakers up off the floor with the lowest pair starting off the floor at 3 feet and then the other 2 pairs stacked on top and the stacks about 6 feet apart trumped any other arrangement by far offering incredible realism, especially for wet sets. Well of course when you've got everything torn apart it gives a person a chance to once again experiment. All I can say is I had fun experimenting once again with several different speaker arrangements, but I could have saved myself a bunch of time after I got things back up and running.
I ended up with the stack starting even a bit higher this time at about 4 feet off the floor and going up from there. There is now NO question in my mind this arrangement of stacked speakers and about 6 feet apart will clobber any other arrangement and it's a contest that isn't even close! If you have to compromise and put any pairs side by side, have the outer pair 6 feet or so apart and put the other pair right next to them, no space at all between them which is what I ended up doing this time, but they are stacked directy on top of the first pair which is a larger pair routed to the pedal division.
Long story short, stack your speakers in a straight vertical line as best you can, any pairs that end up needing to be side by side due to space constraints then put them right next to each other, but strive for an overall arrangement of vertical stacks around 6 feet apart and starting at least 3 feet off the floor and you will be one happy Hauptwerkian!
Marc
So far interesting but I have some tweaking to do, I'll hopefully have something to report soon. 
