Ear height and 800 Diamonds

[joey_v]

Ear height and 800 diamonds? I think the tweeter is a tall 45.5" off the ground. Do you guys sit at midrange or tweeter height? I think that this speaker rules out some low height seats for me like the Eames chair. I need a chair that is atleast 18" seat cushion height to get my ears to the midrange atleast.

Thoughts on this? I worry that if i sit too low, the stage will be unusually high or I'll be sitting in a frequency suckout. I'm just trying to find the ideal ear height. The one that BW engineers set out when they voiced the speaker.

[Yamaki]

I sit with the speaker rake set so that there is a direct line from a spot right in between the tweeter and mids that lines up with my hear at sitting height.

That works best for me.

[joey_v]

Kinda difficult to rake the 800
Though.

[Yamaki]

What? No spikes or accessory bases? I have an accessory base and spike kit for my Aerial Acoustic 8's and those ain't no small speaker.

[joey_v]

Originally Posted by Yamaki

What? No spikes or accessory bases? I have an accessory base and spike kit for my Aerial Acoustic 8's and those ain't no small speaker.

There are spikes but I was hoping to keep them on the balls. Keeps them shorter. Spikes add height and I think they might look funny raked.

I checked stereophile measurements and it seems like the tweeter has good vertical dispersion while the FST driver beams off angle and there's a drop in frequency response.


So I am beginning to think that ear at FST level is appropriate rather than tweeter height where you lose info from the FST.

[BlueSky]

Although I don't have the diamonds, I find that the spikes do firm up the imaging better than what I had experienced with the speakers on the roller balls. I wish there were only 3 spikes vice 4 as it would be easier than trying to adjust the 4th spike to an ideal height.

[ariess]

My experience: best option for footers for 800 or. 802 is cerabase footers designed for the 800 series. Look them up online.

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[TLi]

I have used 800 Diamond. The balls kill the sound. The music sounds much better with spikes.

To lower the listening position, you can try to tilt the speaker slightly forward by lengthening the rear spikes.

[Number95]

Originally Posted by TLi

I have used 800 Diamond. The balls kill the sound. The music sounds much better with spikes.

To lower the listening position, you can try to tilt the speaker slightly forward by lengthening the rear spikes.

+1

Exactly as TLi mentioned, if you use 800s with balls, you dont listen to them correctly. Balls are for initial setup and speaker placement, you need to replace them with spikes for critical listening. For tilting, as TLi wrote, experiment with rear spikes to adjust tweeter axis to your listening position. As you also figure out, BW is very sensitive to tweeter axis, tonal range changes rapidly.

[joey_v]

Ok now I understand - throw the balls out. No balls. Balls are bad.

But ear height right around midrange height is ok?