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B&W 705 S3 with bad acoustics

We Recently moved into a new home that has terrible room acoustics, 12' ceilings, tile floors, glass window walls.  Open floor plan with no possibility or room treatment. I've never owned B&W speakers curious if they will glare in a very resonate room. Previous tried Kef Rs meta, Dynaudio special 40 and Sonus Faber Sonetto w/ Rel T9x with no luck. Paird with Hegel h390. Auralic streamer.

renosteve
soix
10,181 posts
 

If your room, which is obviously a sonic nightmare and is basically an echo chamber, didn’t work with the Dynes or Sonetto it’ll only get worse with the 705s that lean even brighter.  If I was you I’d seriously be looking at some kind of digital room EQ if you can’t do anything to treat that room.  Can’t you at least put down an area rug?  I’d think even just doing that might improve acoustics quite a bit.  Just my $0.02 FWIW, and best of luck with this very challenging situation. 

renosteve OP
28 posts
 

Thank you for yhe advice. I contacted mini-dsp and quarried if a mini-dsp Flex with Dirac would help my room. The answer was no, it cannot correct room echoing. I do have a large area rug which I'm sure helps but not nearly enough. Just trying to prevent the cycle of buying to find out if it get any better.  Thought the Sonetto's V  floorstanders might help, but alas no.

audiokinesis
2,764 posts
 

Ime acoustic problems call for acoustic solutions, and EQ is not an acoustic solution.  Theoretically aggressive room treatment would help in this case.  When room treatment isn’t feasible, one alternative would be speakers whose radiation patterns are sufficiently narrow and sufficiently uniform that they do not interact with the room in an undesirable way to begin with.  

Quoting acoustician Matthew Poes: "A speaker that has controlled dispersion does basically the same thing you’d expect an acoustic panel to do, but it does a better job. And it allows you to get away with no panels on the wall.”
 
Duke
kofibaffour
300 posts
 

Well, you need to solve the issue first before just buying things. Buying things other than what is necessary for room treatment isn't gonna help

 

Get a measurement mic. This is excellent for that - miniDSP, UMIK-2 USB Reference Measurement Microphone

and get this measurement software - REW - Room EQ Wizard Room Acoustics Software

and follow this measurement method and literature - The moving microphone method (MMM) for Dummies using REW

MMM Moving Mic Measurement - Loudspeakers.audio

Use the above method to determine how your speakers are interacting with your room space and that can determine what kind of room treatment to use.

To me it is ideal to start with gapped velocity corner bracing traps, e.g. 

 

You can use REW to simulate your room modes too. and finally, when you take those measurements you can reach out to GIK Acoustics for consultation. They're the experts

 

and yes, miniDSP was right to tell you that

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