OP, good post but what do newbies test their room with if they don't have speakers to play the REW tone sweep with?
My own process was to get speakers I liked a lot and then tested to see how the room could be improved to accommodate the speakers.
Advice to Newbies
I have been pursuing the audiophile utopia for many years now and after all these years I finally am able to feel like I can offer some advice. And that advice is….buy a mic, download REW and test your room! You can place expensive speakers in a bad room and that is how they will sound. BAD! Your room needs to be treated first. Then, start shopping for your dream speaker.
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@baclagg Gotcha! I agree, of course! Given a bad enough room, though, your advice could apply. Because if the room is terrible enough, one might never know what a given set of speakers sound like. In that case, some kind of pre-treatment of a room -- even a carpet or some absorptive furniture -- would be necessary before trying out speakers. |