Corey
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They will get better with break in but also with placement. This speaker is flexible but yet deserves the time invested to really find the best placement for your room. Like any speaker, they will sound there best when set up optimally, but the HDT, with its radial pattern of sound dispersion and top plate dispersion allows the openess you speak of when you described the foorsteps with a pin point definition and perceived realism from the natural tone of the speaker.
The beauty of the HDT's is the phase response of the speaker gives fantastic openess but with a definition that makes it very local and real. I really played with these speakers alot for a couple years listening in mono with only one, listening with various toe-in angles and also really experimenting with wide placement of them. By this, I mean placing them wider apart than the norm. They respond very well various toe-in angles and wide spacing.
BTW, you should hear this speaker, on a calm, summer Sunday afternoon, off a well done SET that has been playing for a few hours, placed on a cement step with the driver at ear level when standing on my lawn. Yup, firing out into the country side. Then slowly walk back and forth till the frequency balance is perfect. My oh my, what an experience! Praise God! The tone, balance and timbre of everything was so realistic, just plain REAL. Everything just decayed with perfect naturalness, the bass was scary deep and fast, no overhang, none. It sounds so good, you just stand there like an infant and bounce up and down by bending your knees feebly like they do. It is just amazing.
Corey
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