MasonStorm@MartinLoganOwn
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This past week I added a Motif as my center channel. It's sitting inside the top center cabinet space of a BDI Avion 8929 AV stand, which is essentially enclosed on all sides except for the front (there's a small round hole in the back for routing the cables). I have it resting on its enclosed rubber feet, with the feet turned around so as to provide a slight lift for the front of the Motif, thereby aiming it more directly at the main listening position. I really don't want to move this speaker anywhere else. If it goes on top of the cabinet, I'll have to raise the TV too high; mounting it above the TV would seem to make its sound come from way too high (it's a big 70" TV), and on the floor, too low.
I checked, and the little blue light on the back is on, indicating it's plugged in correctly. And while dialogue definitely seems clearer & punchier, I think the cabinet-all-around enclosure is causing acoustic issues. It seems quite boomy & cabinet-enclosed; I imagine that has more to do with the woofers in the Motif rather than the electrostatic panel, since that panel has built-in acoustic treatment inside the Motif, and since it fires so straight-on directionally, I don't think the midrange and tweeter are bouncing around their waves inside the cabinet. I have yet to try flipping the Motif's switch for "on-wall" placement, although I don't think that applies to the woofers, and besides, the manual reports that that setting is for when the posterior wall is 4 inches or less away (and the BDI is deep enough to actually have that be more like a foot away).
Are acoustic treatments for the cabinet space in order, and if so, should they cover all four walls (including underneath the Motif)? What brands and product/model numbers can you recommend?
Or perhaps, should I intentionally hamstring the Motif, directing the AVR to crossover to the subwoofer at all frequencies below 200Hz?
I checked, and the little blue light on the back is on, indicating it's plugged in correctly. And while dialogue definitely seems clearer & punchier, I think the cabinet-all-around enclosure is causing acoustic issues. It seems quite boomy & cabinet-enclosed; I imagine that has more to do with the woofers in the Motif rather than the electrostatic panel, since that panel has built-in acoustic treatment inside the Motif, and since it fires so straight-on directionally, I don't think the midrange and tweeter are bouncing around their waves inside the cabinet. I have yet to try flipping the Motif's switch for "on-wall" placement, although I don't think that applies to the woofers, and besides, the manual reports that that setting is for when the posterior wall is 4 inches or less away (and the BDI is deep enough to actually have that be more like a foot away).
Are acoustic treatments for the cabinet space in order, and if so, should they cover all four walls (including underneath the Motif)? What brands and product/model numbers can you recommend?
Or perhaps, should I intentionally hamstring the Motif, directing the AVR to crossover to the subwoofer at all frequencies below 200Hz?