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I thought I'd post my impressions of the Cubix.

But, I'm not going to say much about the sound just yet because I'm running in new LS6 and I think that has got a while to settle down yet: I'm getting some hooligan sound behaviour at the moment. And I need to sort out some positioning and support issues.

So all I have to report at the moment is that they're quite big and heavy...oh, and black.

Those LS6 were already mostly run in.

Dr Bunsen Honeydew wrote:Those LS6 were already mostly run in.

Hmm. Then something else is running in, maybe it's my ears

Well as I told you if they don't hit the spot return them.

Anyway do they sound like they sound here.

Why keep us waiting, just let it all hang out, If we don't know how they sound when they are poorly set up, then we have no reference point for when they are properly set up.

Dr Bunsen Honeydew wrote:Well as I told you if they don't hit the spot return them.

Anyway do they sound like they sound here.

Yes they sound like they sounded there but somehow not as 'full' - obviously the other difference is the amplification, I'm not using a TSS. And I have a problem with sibilance - noticed it down there on the Ella soundtrack but thought it was close miking and the type of mike but I've noticed it up here as well (could well be my ears though). I think I need to have a good fettling session with the stands to get them a bit more solid.

Sovereign wrote:Why keep us waiting, just let it all hang out, If we don't know how they sound when they are poorly set up, then we have no reference point for when they are properly set up.

I need to get my thoughts together but I will post in a day or so, when I've had a good listening session - only managed a couple of hours so far.

I know, I'm only keen to hear what you have to say, I always need a few days to really assess the differences.
I'll often listen to a new product for a couple of days, and then reverse the process by re fitting the old component.

From what you are saying you haven't set them up, they are not like ordinary speakers, as I explained to you they are like a camera lens, you have to get them in focus. You heard them in my room, well if they were 6 inches further forward they would be lumpy lose weight and tend to sibilance, 6 inches further back they would be cloudy and bass heavy. Get that right and then adjust toe in until the image becomes large and three dimensional.

They are not plonk and play.

Admittedly I have just plonked and played: but I have to start somewhere. :?

Going by what the Doc says, I have them too far forward - they're in the spot previously occuppied by the ES22s which sound better a fair way into the room - a good couple of foot from the back wall. They're definitely further forward than the Doc had them in his room so I'm getting a lot of power (hence the hooligan comment earlier) but not the fullness I'd heard at the Docs.

More fettling this evening.