Hi Everyone,

I just thought I would do a quick blog on an install that I did earlier in the week as one of the things that annoys me is when people say big speakers in a small room can’t work, when I had PMC MB2′s at home before setting up HFL they were only in a smallish room and they absolutely sung so in reality there is no reason why a big speaker can’t work in a small room but this install was definitely going to test that theory.

So after our PMC Fenestria install struggles, which is a really nice sized room to be fair, we’re still working on that one btw, I was actually quite nervous with this install this week, it was basically a case of installing a pair of Wilson Audio Sasha 2 speakers into a relatively small room for one of our very good customer’s, I was confident they would work but you can never be 100% sure until you get them in the room as we recently found out.

The first struggle was actually getting them out the van and in the house as at nearly 100kg’s per speaker they are not the easiest speaker to move around and to get up any steps but we did it relatively easily and before you knew it they were ready to plug into the customer’s NuVista 800 amp to see what we had, I think it is fair to say that both myself and the customer was relieved and delighted in equal measure that 1st impressions were very favourable and after a fair bit of tweaking they were absolutely singing so then it was time to put them on their spikes which helped tighten the sound up further, it helps that the customer had an extremely nice front end to get the best from the Sasha’s.

So there you go, in theory the Fenestria install should have gone smoothly and this should have been the problem one but it ended up being in reverse so you can just never tell, what we ended up with on this install was a really tight, powerful and controlled bass with an open top and mid with no colouration whatsoever, I’m sure someone far cleverer than me could explain why these 2 rooms on these installs behave so differently but it has certainly been a learning experience.

McIntosh MHA150 Install.

Once we had the Sasha’s singing the customer also had a nice headphone upgrade as we installed the gorgeous McIntosh MHA150 headphone amp + the Nordost Heimdall II cable to the customer’s Audeze LCD-3′s which again sounded excellent, a very happy man.

Cheers,
Paul