I'm a stacker!

[michaelhigh]

Next time you're running a stack even if it's only one pair put your hand on top of the stack and feel the vibration. That vibration is causing the unused drivers to vibrate as well. Think about what that does to soundstage and imaging. I'll follow the late Zilch's great advice of "no stacking allowed".:yes:

I definitely respect our late great mentor, RIP, but as mentioned it's more a space issue than anything. I am aware of smearing and phase cancellation so I don't do it willy nilly. Usually like brands work well, my best stacks (pairs playing in combination) are Klipsch kg2's and Forte I's (that's the best example of one doing what the other can't and synergy being recognized), A/D/S L400's and L420's (similar in size, really good each by themselves as well as in tandem). I have my speakers, all of them, out and playing, not always together, and I know that the space issue would win out as an excuse to try something that is inherently ill-advised. Better where I can A-B and try different configs than stashed in a closet! I think of concert arrays to justify doing it, and my volume is rarely loud enough to smear much of anything. By the way, congrats on 4000 posts!

 

[Doug G.]

The thing is, I don't care how much one knows, or thinks one knows, about acoustics, one cannot make concrete statements about acoustical aspects and expect them to be true in all instances.

I have a quadraphonic system with stacked original Advents in each corner and my computer desk is facing the side, in between the front right and back right speakers so that is where I am sitting a lot of the time with music playing.

In spite of all the assertions of this type of arrangement destroying any imaging or soundstaging (I have come to HATE that term), I am often struck by hearing an instrument or voice so real next to me that I turn my head almost expecting to see somebody there singing or playing.

Doug

 

[se7en8n9ne]

So is this scenario ok? have a separate set of speakers and receiver for my tt than i do for my tv and dvds. and the speakers are stacked. so is there anything wrong with that?
thanks for your time Brian

 

[I.R.Brainiac]

been known to stack...not ashamed...
been known to surround a room with horizontal speakers laid end to end...not ashamed...
been known to enjoy a kabuki speaker... not ashamed...

I have rigs capable of 3D pinpoint imaging...and rigs that envelope you like ginormous headphones...its all fun.

 

[joel27]

Nothing wrong Brian. Happy listening.

 

[zebra03]

Once upon a time I was a diehard stacker myself. Then I realized just how much stacking mucks up the sound. Then craigslist and bartertown became my best friends for offloading all those extra speakers. If you need to stack you truly need better speakers imho.

I am not a stacker , but I can see where different speakers can bring different things to the table than maybe one speaker can not .

 

[zebra03]

Next time you're running a stack even if it's only one pair put your hand on top of the stack and feel the vibration. That vibration is causing the unused drivers to vibrate as well. Think about what that does to soundstage and imaging. I'll follow the late Zilch's great advice of "no stacking allowed".:yes:

If you think one driver in a closed enclosure is not influencing the others in that enclosure .....................

 

[pw5599]

I used to be a stacker. Now I'm a side by eacher.

 

[noise gate]

I'm not a stacker, I'm a scatterer. I have speakers all over the house, and in the garage.

Hooked up to various sources of amplification. My plan was that if I had equipment spread around that a particular "girl person" who shares my address might not realize when I bring new stuff home.

I think I'm gonna hafta get rid of some or I'll soon be stacking speakers in a circle, stretching a tarp over top and calling it home

 

[jimmyboy1932]

I'm an occasional stacker.

Yes Sir you are! :thmbsp:

 

[bd1886]

A stack project can be fun. Kinda have it going with my L/R theater setup in using high and low fronts......A/B 'em all the time in two channel....sick and short but sounds great with some tracks!

 

[motorstereo]

If you think one driver in a closed enclosure is not influencing the others in that enclosure .....................

You need to clean your reading glasses zebra as I didn't say anything about a driver influencing the other drivers in the same enclosure.

 

[Westy56]

I am not a stacker , but I can see where different speakers can bring different things to the table than maybe one speaker can not .

I need both speaker pairs to get the sound I wish I could get with one pair.

 

[jaguar06]

I confess, I am a stacker. Unapologetic, at that. I made four Frankenspeakers out of four JBL 4311b's and four Magnepan MG-1's. I drive 2 Maggies per one Yamaha MX-1000U and two JBLs per one 1000U, so I can control the sound pressure level from the mixed types relative to each other and control the volume of the whole room, front to back. The JBLs are a great neutral/flat speaker, as are the Maggies and rather than run a murky sub (I have a nice big JBL powered sub, unused), I'd rather just flesh out the lower frequencies and highest frequencies the MG-1s weren't designed to deliver with the JBLs. I had the half rounds in African mahogany free from a friend and always liked playing with Legos as a kid so one day I got to thinking and...

So, yeah, I'm a stacker. And worse yet, I'm proud of it.

(There are nice big round-ball casters under the "feet" that don't show here.)

 

[jaguar06]

Oh, and I bought four Magnepan MMGs and four more JBL 4311s yesterday so I can build Brides of Frankenspeakers for the bedroom.

 

[Geilex]

I love stacking. The whole point of all this is to have fun and listen to great music!! If I wanted perfect sound I would move to a Vacuum...At this point that isnt an option so I'm letting it go.

 

[RS Steve]

short stack :yes:

 

[jaguar06]

There's no sound in a vacuum.

 

[Geilex]

There is You just have turn it up real loud!!!!!!

 

[zebra03]

You need to clean your reading glasses zebra as I didn't say anything about a driver influencing the other drivers in the same enclosure.

You better read my post a little more clearly . If one driver can influence from one speaker to another , than I would imagine one driver could influence other drivers in the same enclosure .