See #47 above
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Dark grey, or as we call it, Sable Black is correct. They are not the deep traditional black.
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No gratuitous selfies with Paul and Chris?
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Oh dear, this is not good … for me. I have a small room too, slightly larger than yours but my speakers are eight feet apart and eight to nine feet to my ears (depending on where the chair has slid to). I had dismissed the FR-30 since my room was too small based on what Chris thought of that arrangement, but now I have to reconsider. I also resigned myself to the severe limitations of my room being in a basement with concrete block walls, and a low seven-foot-high ceiling, a definite no-no according to Darren and Duncan. How high is your ceiling? Looks like you have drywall over the foundation and an irregular wall/ceiling design which is probably a good thing. One thing is for sure, I’ll have to listen to them before taking this fantasy much further, now just have to get to Boulder …
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Your have described my room pretty well. Low 8 to 7ft ceilings, 2x4s over concrete for two walls and standard construction for the rest, low carpet over concrete floor. The room gets bigger with the 2’x6’ side closet opening and the rear wall has double 5’ doors that open to a larger room. That opening negates the rear reflections from hitting the back of your head and is a real plus.
It sounds larger than 10 x 14 room. The FR30 plays nice here. Maybe it would it yours.
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Are they pretty vertically stable? The prototype in Paul’s video was very tippy, moving inches at the top with the slightest touch.
I’m sure that got corrected, but how top-heavy or bottom heavy would you say they are? Safe for toddlers to be around? If you push gently or moderately at the top of the speaker, does it move? How stable does it feel?
The technical term for tippy is “decoupled”. A basement probably has a concrete floor. Probably best not to push, just leave alone.
We’ve posted a video documentary of Straightwire’s installation here. Also, click here to see Mala in Norway’s installation.
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Would someone point me to the link? I would enjoy watching the vid.
Thanks!
Feels very stable to me. I have low carpet over concrete.
The FR30 comes with furniture gliders for the initial positioning. Had no issues.
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See, below. It is down in the text a bit
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That’s good
The link is on Pauls ask Paul today for @straightwire set up.
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I need to set my espresso machine up as an IV drip this morning.
Thanks
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I have already enjoyed a couple of double espressos . . .
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Amir hangover?
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Please don’t bring up the A Word anymore🙏🏻
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@straightwire Great pics and descriptions of your experience with the new FR 30’s! I loved watching the video today with Paul and Chris tweaking your setup to perfection. What an experience! Thank you for opening up your house and sharing!
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Good video Greg. I think you were the star performer, haha, jk Chris and Paul did fine too. One question: you said in the video that Chris said (before seeing your room) that the speakers needed to be at least 8 feet apart - it’s hard to tell but it doesn’t look like they ended up 8 feet apart from each other, and I base that on with Paul standing between them it looks like they’re closer together than his height, but maybe that is an optical illusion not clear from the video.
So how far apart are they and how far from the listening chair? (apologies if you said already above in this thread - but I just finished watching the video and that is the question that sprang to mind)
Great-looking speakers and Paul and Chris will set them up for you! Wow, I may need to trade in my big speakers for these one day. I will have enough trade-in credits for the next few generations of PSA gears.