Disappearing speakers

[@sean_heisler]

Wife: Why do you keep saying the speakers have “disappeared?” They’re right here in the middle of our goddamn living room!

[@JJ-no2ob]

😂

[@tomreidy1237]

I deal with this also. Wives don’t care where you put the speakers as long as you can’t see them.

[@sharonleibel]

I don’t think they disappeared. Here they are, right in our credit card statement!

[@stephens2r338]

I got my speakers to disappear. Then I realised the TV and the laptop had gone too.

[@stimpy1226]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha

[@SteveWille]

To find his speakers again Steven has to do nothing more than ask his wife where they are. 😆

[@robertb5640]

Hi Paul I recently bought your book "the loudspeaker" and sacd and on my first try my jaw dropped! You don't charge enough lol!! I already have the equipment and just needed a better setup procedure and it works! The value of your book and sacd is extraordinary thank you for what your do sir!

[@Paulmcgowanpsaudio]

What a wonderful note!! Thank you. This made my day.

[@polokomogatusi3787]

I couldn't help but imagine where is Steve looking for "disappeared speakers" 😅😅 A very humorous one Steve, thank you for the laugh u brought - great one!!👍🏾👍🏾

[@colanitower]

The updated Audiophile's Guide needs a Lost&Found section and associated website for speakers that disappeared and are now on the loose

[@bluebussdriver]

I have an entry level system I would say, some recordings have the ability to make the speakers disappear, but most do not. I’m not convinced rearrangement of the chairs on the titanic will do much when the recording is not spot on.

[@Pete.across.the.street]

When you go up market with your equipment those same recordings, the speaker will disappear.

[@carlosalvarez7445]

​@@Pete.across.the.street Not necessarily, it's been said before, sadly, many of our most beloved music was delivered in crap recordings and there's pretty much nothing that can be done about it, forget about speaker placement, no remastering, nothing, nada.

[@Projacked1]

Hahahahahaha, that final question was hilarious.

[@royferntorp]

I love active speakers. There are some cool controls on the back. HPF, LPF, gain etc. My wife didn't like the look of them. She researched acoustic transparent curtains.

[@razzman2987]

Many times in some forum somebody wrote if your tv is between youre speakers cover it up with a blanket...i finally tried it 😊. Its amazing the sound becomes more pleasant . Try it out

[@spiros06]

Paul please make a video about what you are using for your room treatment

[@NoEgg4u]

I do not see them in this video, but I know that he uses Vicoustic panels. They are probably on the ceiling and side walls, out of camera range. I do not know who manufactures the panels that we can see in this video. Note that Vicoustic does not stand by their product. I found this out first-hand, when my panels started falling from the ceiling and walls. It took me 2 years to get replacements. Microsoft sued Vicoustic (one of the Vicoustic employees told me on one of the phone calls). Vicoustic sold me expired glue. And when they finally sent me replacement panels, they sent more expired glue. My installer went to Home Depot and picked up a different brand that was fresh. It has been approximately 5 years, and no problems. The panels get the job done, as long as they don't come sailing down on your speakers, turntable, or head. Hearing the crash, while falling asleep in the bedroom, is unsettling.

[@mariodrv]

They DO look gorgeous.

[@railgap]

J. Gordon Holt (I think? It was someone at either Stereophile or Audio) dubbed the problem Spousal Acceptance Factor. Mine couldn't deal with medium-sized Maggies. Yet she seems okay with the equally enormous speakers I have now. I wonder how she'd react to some really big speakers.

[@jamestartaglia7686]

Nice looking speakers !!!

[@slacker23666]

Funniest thing I heard all day!

[@jacquesduplessis6175]

waahaaaa, best letter ever!!!

[@NoEgg4u]

My youtube comments are so good, they sometimes disappear. youtube seems to have algorithms that toss comments.

[@draztiqmeshaz6226]

Which ones? 😂

[@InsideOfMyOwnMind]

GOT HIM!

[@AngryChineseWoman]

My apartment got robbed last August when I was in vacation, my speakers disappeared

[@user-od9iz9cv1w]

My first house got robbed. They sifted through everything. Got jewelry, tv, liquor... even my alarm clock. They took the turntable but left the speakers and amp. That's when I knew I needed to up my game.

[@John_thetrader]

Dear Paul ... how or where would you place the wife ... so the sound disapears all tips welcom i tryed a few spots but the sound keeps comming back ...

[@JohnWickFour]

Hmm audiophiles guuide to home theatre and 2 channel guide work or even possible 🤔

[@alunt4845]

I find i get better sound from the speakers when I make the wife disappear...

[@ThinkingBetter]

There is some joy in looking at your system when you play music but I find my brain quickly getting a sense of the sound coming from the two positions just by knowing they are there from seeing them. If I close my eyes I can avoid this sense of speaker location. A motorized curtain with acoustically transparent (as good as it can get) might be one way to deal with it. I have such curtain in my home theatre room which operates in either large TV or projector mode, where in the projector mode, the electrical curtain hides all the speakers and TV while the motorized screen moves down in front of it. Such curtains are common when doing professional blind testing of speakers during R&D. Our brain creates perceptions based on sensor fusion, so a topic is how to get the best total experience with best sound stage, resolving the details and also visually pleasing. I don't use such curtain in my listening room, but I'm considering it.

[@davidelmquist8670]

Wrong, you buy Larsen speakers made for real rooms.

[@stephannordmann5346]

No wife no problem 🎉❤ and money 😂

[@unclewilbur8976]

Hi Paul! Looks like I’m the first. 😊

[@jimbennett2795]

What an ugly room I mean the wall treatments in the back look like old wall heaters. The speakers look upside down. What a mess. Should have never sold the Enfinity's

[@googoo-gjoob]

hahahahahahahahahahahaha.....good one

[@PSA78]

Hopefully no one would build a listening room or equipment based on looks alone. 🙈

[@TD05SSLegacy]

@@PSA78 Tell that to Andrew Robinson 😅

[@PSA78]

@@TD05SSLegacy I must have missed that, but I take it it's bad. 😄

[@CarlVanDoren61]

Yes, I had monoblocks Didn't like them on floor