hi everyone, i wonder how i can make my music sound like lexus gs mark levinson which have 17 speakers in the car.
MARK LEVINSON AUDIO SYSTEM
> Five Unity Extended Bandwidth speakers (two speakers in each: a 90 mm midrange and 16 mm tweeter)
> Two 180 x 250 mm HiE woofers with aramid composite cones and neodymium magnets
> Two 25 mm titanium dome tweeters with neodymium magnets
> Two 170 mm HiE midwoofers
> One 250 mm double opposing magnet subwoofer with aramid composite cones
> Plus: an 835-watt Class D DSP amplifier
here is the specs.
I want to achieve same or better stage at home, i have limited space so i will be using bookshelves only i am currently with kef r3
whats my next step of upgrade as a source i use my computer and i also recently order nad m33, which is not yet arrived with me.
Back when you asked your first question here, I gave you a detailed answer. One of the points I made, you might remember, is that people in rigorous tests preferred surround systems, like your car system, to stereo systems, and that when starting out in home audio, people need to consider getting a surround system.
I also said that you have to consider what you are buying now on its own terms. It's not a Muso, it's not a surround car system.
It seems to me that you come here, asking a lot of questions, expecting a one line "eureka" answer, and you haven't had one. Finally, allow me:
You will not make a desktop stereo system sound like a surround car system, and if you expect the immersive effect of that car audio system, you are going to need a surround home system.
Now you've had that answer and I'm sure you don't like it. So where do you go, from where you are now?
Well, you've rejected the idea of changing your room on cost grounds. I do slightly wonder when you live in a small basement flat but apparently have two expensive cars full of high end car audio gear, but I don't know or care about your priorities. Possibly your job involves you being on the road a lot, or your number one hobby is driving. All good.
And, of course, making your most important life decisions around getting a good audio system is not a sound (pun sort of intended) practice.
So, either you change the layout of where you live to include a surround system - or you move - or you learn about stereo and good desktop audio.
Next point - that Mark Levinson system in your car is not just a collection of speakers. It's been specifically designed and fitted into the car. It's value is more in how it is set up and what it does, than the components. You have the combined resources of the Lexus interior designers and Harman expertise put into how it is designed and what it does.
Your Muso in a way is similar. You have designers and engineers employed by Naim to make something that sounds good when it is just plonked down somewhere.
Note that with your NAD and KEF components, you haven't got that - you are on your own, and
you have to do the work to make it sound as best it can.
And - the car audio system is, well, a car audio system. It is designed not for the best in high fidelity, but to allow you to hear the main features of the music over the sound of the car engine, of the air passing over the car at speed, the sound of the wheels on the road, all that noise that you get when driving (that's probably also been reduced in the design of the car compared to others to start with). You're mostly listening while driving, so you are hearing the music as a secondary activity to concentrating on the road most of the time. So your experience is different to when you listen intently in the home as well. Remember what I and others pointed out about listening intently being the value here?
So forget this question of yours. RIght now, it's the wrong one. The thing to do for the moment is to concentrate on what you have already bought - the M33 and the R3s - and making the best you can with them. Before you go further with this, you have to decide whether they can do at least some of what you are looking for.
If you can't get them to work for you - so you enjoy listening intently to them - in the setup you say you are limited to, it's unlikely that upgrading your speakers to Reference 1, or any of the other contenders (you can pay a lot more if you want) is going to work magic in comparison.
There is a third option, which is to get a good headphone system. I'd guess there are quite a lot of people on this forum, in situations like yours, that have done precisely that. It can give you some degree of that immersion as well. Maybe you should get yourself to a decent shop - I know, they do seem like the Monty Python Cheeseshop! - and listen to a good pair of headphones for comparison sometime soon. But the main thing is to make they R3s work and see how you feel about them then.
Again, good luck. Hope the M33 turns up soon and you can get going on things.