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LEDE does anyone subscribe to this?

Does anyone subscribe to the live end dead end concept. A lot of studios used this concept. Does anyone use it in their home?

Is it applicable or useful to dipole radiators?

I am building a listening room in my basement and looking for ideas on taming the sound of sheet rock. My room sounded pretty good (insulation on the outside walls and carpet on the floor) before I decided to have it meet WAF standards.
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Danny,

I also think that LEDE doesn't apply as well to home stereo as it does for studio use. As you mentioned in your post, LEDE was really developed for studio use where the listening is (very) near-field.
I use ASC tube traps & from what I have read & personally experienced in my listening room, the LEDE concept needs to be inverted. The original LEDE says that the speaker end is dead & the listener end is live. From my experience it is should flipped - the speaker end should be live & the listener end should be dead. THIS IS A GENERAL STATEMENT 'cuz neither end is completely live nor completely dead respectively.
What I found to work best w/ tube traps in my room is:
* directly behind speakers, directly to the side of the speakers & directly behind listener should be dead.
* 4 corners of room should be reflective 400Hz & above.
* If you have more traps then the remaining space along the walls should have varying degrees of reflection/absorption for best sound. Here the user needs to tune the trap to his/her listening preferences.
FWIW. YMMV.
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