Nordost Systems Solution

Purchased this 2 disc CD. Very good information on system set-up and speaker placement, performance. Will start "tuning" this week. Excellent recordings and a good tool to see how low your speakers / room really is.

Brap wrote:Purchased this 2 disc CD.  Very good information on system set-up and speaker placement, performance.  Will start "tuning" this week. Excellent recordings and a good tool to see how low your speakers / room really is.

Any clues as  to name/use/price? Enquiring minds need to know.

Nordost Systems Solution. 2 CD disc set. Includes a variety of tests / tones to optimize speaker placement, understand soundstage and performance of speakers and room. 2nd CD has test tones in increments on 1Hz from 20 to 120 allowing the user to understand "how low you go". Various musical tracks to fine tune placement. I'm about 80% there after about 2 hours of listening and moving things around / experimenting. Very insightful and enjoyable. <1" really does make a difference I have found. If you are a critical listener, this is a great tool to have.
Music Direct has it for $39.99

From their site:

Essential channel and phase checks.
• Multiple pink and white noise signals for speaker/room diagnostics.
• Sophisticated LEDR tests to optimize speaker placement.
• System maintenance tracks (De-Gauss and Burn-In)
• Low-frequency tones specially designed and configured to map room modes and aid speaker placement or subwoofer positioning and integration.
• Specially selected music tracks with detailed listening notes to further refine system performance.

Brap wrote:Nordost Systems Solution. 2 CD disc set.  Includes a variety of tests / tones to optimize speaker placement, understand soundstage and performance of speakers and room. 2nd CD has test tones in increments on 1Hz from 20 to 120 allowing the user to understand "how low you go". Various musical tracks to fine tune placement. I'm about 80% there after about 2 hours of listening and moving things around / experimenting.  Very insightful and enjoyable.  <1" really does make a difference I have found. If you are a critical listener, this is a great tool to have.
Music Direct has it for $39.99

Thanks. I cringed when I saw "Nordost" in your post. But $30 ain't bad.

Same here -- when I saw it at the local hi-fi shop next to some ridiculous priced cables, I wondered how that was going to hit the wallet. For the price, as you say, not bad. A few music tracks are really nice and the explanation in the booklet about what you should be listening for on these is quite interesting. Now I get to amuse friends listening to my rig and help them understand what to listen for with their own and make some placement changes / room alterations.

Forgot to add, wife came downstairs and asked "what's with all the Sharpie markings on the concrete floor"?!!!