Thanks a lot for your involvement.
I've been playing with the speaker placement. Klipschorns must be placed square in corners for the proper bass response, so I have false corners made for them out of some wood boards [plywood or mdf would be a lot better, but that's coming later]. With the false corners I can dial them in a bit in the room.
In the diagram posted on the previous page, R & L denote the speaker positions on the short wall. From the middle of the front of L speaker to the middle front of the R speaker is about 100", just over 8'. My seating position is about 90" away, in the apex of that triangle [Pythagorean equation makes it easy to calculate]. One of the reasons for buying the MEN220 was my hope that it would improve on the narrow soundstage, being that these speakers are too close to one another. There are other deficiencies in this space, namely uneven bass.
So I decided to move one of the speakers to the long wall, to see how they fare. In our previous home I had a very good listening room, the Khorns were positioned about 18 feet apart, as opposed to just about 8 feet here.
After moving one of the speakers to the long wall, where the FP is on the diagram, they were now 13 feet apart, and the soundstage widened significantly, perhaps even a bit much. Performing the Room Knowledge measurements yielded 8 or 9% correction, which I described above. I only measured for Focus 1 position, since there's only me in my chair, and no other listening positions in the room. The difference between Bypass and Focus became quite apparent in the lower register. Sound with the Focus mode selected on MEN220 at RK of 100% gained a significant amount of 40Hz bass, the singers voices became less sibilant, and less palpable, the same effect for the guitars; the bass started to overpower the singers. It was just too much oomph. In the Bypass mode the sound of the speakers along the long wall was more pleasant than on the short wall [where they sat prior to my measuring with RP], much wider soundstage, and more detail. However I was now lacking that bass I was getting with the Focus mode.
In a nutshell, I wasn't thrilled with what I did with the Focus setting in this arrangement. While adding the much needed bass, it had removed the finer points of musical spectrum, and the bass became bloated. It was nice to hear that my woofers were capable of throwing a cat across the room in the Focus mode, but I think by just cranking up the 70 Hz eq wheel on the C42 I could've attained a similar objective.
So I moved the speakers back to the short wall and did a set of 5 random measurements, as instructed by the MEN220. Room correction for Focus 1 position at 95% Room Knowledge was 17%, so I decided to stop there, without going for the 100% Room Knowledge. Being that it was already pushing 1am, I called it a night. Will get back to it tonight, with fresh ears.