Room is way too bright.


Question?
Unfortunately, my listening room has a lot of windows.

I’m happy with my system, but I need to decrease the higher frequencies at bit.
What is the best and most cost effective way of achieving that?

 

 

 

lovehifi22

Having a picture of your space may help us determine solutions.  The ceiling panel, also known as a cloud, is probably your best bet without covering your windows with absorption.  Handling that ceiling bounce will at least mitigate that reflection angle and may make the space much better.  I also agree with speaker placement and toe in are critical and by moving your speakers away from the windows, you can reduce the amount of acoustic energy hitting the walls.  DSP and cables are the absolute last thing I would do.  Building panels is not hard, or you can reach out to a company like gik acoustics and order paneling from them. 

@8th-note

I really like your approach!

As noted by others, reflections come from the walls and also the ceiling and floor.

If you want to minimise the accoustic mess created by different length reflection paths, use speakers with a minimal number of crossovers and separated drivers.  Think point-source, or an approximation of it.

That way the reflections are at least coherent, making it much easier for your ear/brain to hear through to the music.

As Magnepans essentially don’t radiate to the sides, I’ve found them to be much more forgiving of rooms with glass on the sidewalls.

I can open my blinds all the way and the sound is still good, just a bit “lighter” in tonality.

I can vouch for that Magnepan comment. I have some Magnepan Minis in a 10 x 13 x 8 open room. I have a CD rack near the left speaker and a huge TV placed on the floor of the right speaker. If I used non-Magnepan speakers in this space it would be crazy reflective and fatiguing. The Mini sound very good in this compromised space and the only speaker that I have owned that I do not worry so much about the first reflections.