@erik_squires
Can it be that the floor is closer to your tweeter than your sidewalls?
(I hope your ceiling is also further away from your tweeter than your floor) 😉
That may be the reason why you got that conclusion/s..
(The first reflection points are lik said on all the different types of room boundaries. The character and why it is called the "first" is it the "first" time the direct sound bouncing against a boundary. That means that each time a bounce is occurring some energy is lost into that boundary it reflects on. So the first reflection is the strongest one or let say it has the most energy left in it. If we look at if you play against the long wall and only look at the side wall reflections then the sidewall reflections is so far away and the sound need to travel so far that it will loose energy just because of that and as we also know is if the reflected sound is arriving to the listening position more than 5ms delayed than the ear brain can distinguish between what is reflected and what is the direct sound but if the side walls were closer/less than < 5ms than our brains can not separate what is direct or reflected sound.
As we see the replies in this thread is mixed because our experiences is with different distances to the side walls and nobody is specifying what distance to the side walls they have when they tell us their experience..)
So the other area which to me is more important is the floor between and behind the speakers. It seems that treble harshness always lives there.
Definitely not first reflection points.
Can it be that the floor is closer to your tweeter than your sidewalls?
(I hope your ceiling is also further away from your tweeter than your floor) 😉
That may be the reason why you got that conclusion/s..
(The first reflection points are lik said on all the different types of room boundaries. The character and why it is called the "first" is it the "first" time the direct sound bouncing against a boundary. That means that each time a bounce is occurring some energy is lost into that boundary it reflects on. So the first reflection is the strongest one or let say it has the most energy left in it. If we look at if you play against the long wall and only look at the side wall reflections then the sidewall reflections is so far away and the sound need to travel so far that it will loose energy just because of that and as we also know is if the reflected sound is arriving to the listening position more than 5ms delayed than the ear brain can distinguish between what is reflected and what is the direct sound but if the side walls were closer/less than < 5ms than our brains can not separate what is direct or reflected sound.
As we see the replies in this thread is mixed because our experiences is with different distances to the side walls and nobody is specifying what distance to the side walls they have when they tell us their experience..)