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Setup adds significant variables and more profound than with forward radiators. That's because close wall proximity (front, sides) reduces the time gap between direct and reflected sound. Our brain sums those two actions into a singular albeit blurred event. Only when wall distance begins to exceed ~1.3m does the brain separate direct and reflected sound into two discrete events of original sound + echo/reverb. This separation strips off the blur from the direct primary sound and turns it into a secondary effect. The recorded signal gets precedence. Let's take a lesson from German Physiks' own Munich 2013 setup to see how they dealt with my very review pair. Not only were their HRS-120 well removed from all vertical boundaries—particularly the front-wall distance should be utterly impractical for most domestic situations, but even the side wall distance was quite extreme—the long walls were strategically covered by absorptive panels. That's another massive no-no for most homes. Relative to being realistic on what to expect in a standard living room, German Physiks' presentation thus was most deceptive and cheated very badly. One could rightly question why even engineer an omni speaker if one proposed to kill off half its radiation for best results (in truth less than half if we account for how their side-wall absorbers were less and less effective at lower frequencies). To lighten up my own midrange/upper bass soup meant moving the HRS-120 inward to create sufficient side-wall distance. This increased subjective clarity but didn't yet add more airiness. The sound still didn't have the desired energetic jump factor or speed. I asked Ivette to sit down and opine. She called the speakers perfectly inoffensive (translated: boring) and essentially wanted to know just how soon we could get back to our own.
As a reviewer I couldn't capitulate yet. The next order of business was increasing the front-wall distance. Having parked the HRS-120 on the ball ends of their spikes and those into Track Audio's aluminum shoes with removed felt pads to slide easily on my sisal rugs—those double as indestructible scratching post for Blondie the cat—this was child's play. Once the speakers cleared the front wall by two meters i.e. an additional 80cm from before, I had magically regained the type of depth layering and see-into finesse and lightness I consider normal for this room and what its layout and furniture will accommodate [see below].
Page 1 and 2: Reviewer: Srajan Ebaen Financial In
Page 3 and 4: The actual review pair at HighEnd M
Page 5: Setting the HRS-120 up where all ot
Page 9 and 10: Still looking for the optimal setup
Page 11 and 12: Another very happy observation was
Page 13 and 14: On natural tone multi-polar speaker
Page 15 and 16: My original setup as a reminder. Th
Page 17 and 18: The HRS-120 acted as though it had
Page 19 and 20: My own takeaway from this experimen
Page 21 and 22: If there's one item its own propaga

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