Orelo - KnB

[KnB]

Peter; As you know I am working onboard a vessel -spending many of my weekends onboard my boat and living a few meters from the sea! Love it. 

Thank you Juan and Joachim; very happy with the look of the all white Orelo speakers. It worked out much better then what I expected.

XXPC:
A big THANK YOU to Peter for spending several hours fixing my mobo usb problems yesterday - were can you find support as Peter provide? its just outstanding!

[manisandher]

Totally gorgeous Kjell!

Mani.

[KnB]

Thank you mani

Received Blaxius and parts for 75B edition of NOS1a

these resistors was very small, alt least for me 
But manage to install them after some advice from Ciska Thank you!

Have done a lot of soldering before, but not on small smd resistors like this... well they are actually big.... ??

No testing of SQ yet, just a quick listen - noticed the bass level, more bass then before.

Some picture of the cables and dac, and the large resistors that was changed out to 75 Ohm. 

[PeterSt]

Kjell Narve - super congratulations man !

Oh, I am still laughing from yesterday's experience - how someone can go beyond himself (is that English ?). Or rise above himself.

I always like anecdotes, and this sure is one never to forget (you won't either Kjell Narve). Say there is some live chat going on between us. It went something like this :

K: Hey, I see UPS is close already !
P: Oh sh*t that is one day early. No, didn't prepare the instructions yet.
(3 minutes later)
K: It's here !!
P: Sh*t.
K: Oh I start with the speakers; take your time.
P: Sh*t.
P: Here are the photos.
K: Speakers done !
(20 seconds later)
K: But these resistors are so small !!! Impossible ! what to dooooo
P: No, these are the large ones. LOL
(yeah, what to do)
P: Call Ciska. She may be able to find out whether you can or can't do it.

At this stage I was so much laughing because of the built up tense in such a short while which with one big blast went up even more - me envisioning someone *suddenly* totally desparate while all seemed set. 5 minutes later I was still laughing outloud and thought to ask Ciska to call Kjell Narve.
But now things really went odd.

Fired up the system to look up his phone number in order to pass it on to Ciska, called Ciska and ...
Was connected with a totally desparate man. Well sort of and I didn't understand what was happening. Then I stared at the screen and realized that I dialed that number instead of Ciska's (I still can't type of laughing at this moment).
So of course that small conversation was confusing to begin with because I didn't know who I was connected to (at first) so it went more like eh and huh and oh and HUH ? but from the other side I perceived the similar but now from someone with hands in the air of not knowing what to do in the first place and taking the phone for a small break.
Meanwhile I had nothing to say of course because for me a 10cm SMD is too small already, so whether it was understood or not, within 30 seconds the conversation had ended by me saying "I can't help you anyway !". And so I envision someone standing there, slowly falling backwards flat on the back.
"PeterSt calls which he never does to tell he can't help ?".

Anyway, and you won't know it, but this is actually my real work; with my ICT comany everything can happen anywhere in the world for panicing and then I am a "oh, no worries" and I make some phone calls and things are arranged for in minutes, actually by conecting the right persons to the right persons. This just has to go very fast (think a whole company being "out of order" plus trucks waiting and piling up) so it is my nature to not talk about the weather or whatever irrelevant and this is how that conversation really took 30 seconds. Yes, strange for talking to someone for the first time while you know him for how many years ? must be 7.

And so after this small conversation I now dialed the right number and 3 minutes later I received some YouTube guides to pass on of which I of course didn't understand the how and what so I called what to do with it and heard that all was already arranged for. Huh, in 3 minutes ? Oh yea, just pass on those YouTubes. Oh.

I am laughing again.

Next email I received 30 minutes or so later was "they're off !" and the further message implied that Kjell Narve was typing this with one hand in order to make a telephone call with the other to his wife to bring along special pliers, needed for soldering in the new ones.
And an hour later it was done.

Yes, I love this. Such a thing always makes my listening sessions in the evening "better sounding". Yesterday too I was sure it never sounded so good, and I started to think that maybe the cables need a break-in of more serious time. But that is something else and maybe it was just my mood.

Sorry for the maybe stupid story but I hope people can envision the background of Kjell Narve's 6-line post which, I am sure, really was depressing for him but with a quick happy end (not the Thai one). And you know what ? I too can thank Ciska.

Peter

[KnB]

 
A glass with Hennessy XO tonight

[PeterSt]

Uh ... oh ? then Yamazaki here.

[KnB]

Finally I have done some measurements of my room, have planned this a while -lack of time as I have not been much at home.
Also inspired by Mani´s trad about his measurements of his room tks mani!

Well here are the first measurement using an umic1 and REW. (at listening position)
I did know about the peak somewhere above 100hz, and here I can see it.... not very nice... Measurement done at dsp bass attenuation at -24,5 db

[KnB]

Low level bass is lifted, peaks and dips reduced looking much better now
DSP Bass level is now reduced from -24.5 to -27 db

After many mails and several DSP files we ended up with this:

[KnB]

Thank you very much Peter for an outstanding customer support!!
As always 

Edit:
My room is not optimal, I knew that from before purchasing the Orelo mk2 - DSP was one of the criteria for my new speakers, as I was not happy with the bass response in my room.

Befor and after  - 1/6 smoothing:

[PeterSt]

Haha - I actually find it quite funny myself that this can work so relatively easy.
So apart from a few initiating emails and general approach, it required 7 iterations to get there (we ended up at "PS07", right ?).

And Kjell Narve, you used REW on an iPad, do I have this right ? Is it difficult to explain what one needs to obtain exactly ? Looks much more easy to me than some kind of difficult "recorder" ...

Well, it was fun to do it ! and great work from your side too.
Peter

[KnB]

I am using Mackbook air together with the umik-1
Plug and play using the headphone outlet to the speakers XLR. I am new to this, but all went very well I think.

yes, 7 files, almost all with improvements.   

[manisandher]

Finally I have done some measurements of my room, have planned this a while -lack of time as I have not been much at home.
Also inspired by Mani´s trad about his measurements of his room tks mani!

You're welcome Kjell. And well done on a great outcome - your response is flatter than mine above 100Hz.

Mani.

[manisandher]

Plug and play using the headphone outlet to the speakers XLR.

The biggest issue for me was feeding the BNC inputs on the speakers. So, how did you manage this?

Edit: I guess it's because you kept your XLRs connected, unlike me... Doh!

Mani.

[PeterSt]

I guess it's because you kept your XLRs connected, unlike me... Doh!

WHAT ?