Speaker Placement
One of the most difficult things I experienced is to get the tonal balance correct. It took me a while to realize that speakers placement changes as you change the volume level of your playback and music selection. If I were to make the adjustment with predominately vocal reference track then the sound may not be at its best when playing classical music. I doubt there is one position for all types of music. It is just a compromise. |
My room is well damped. Here is video of the sound with speaker angle about 8 degree and straight. you can find more videos in the playlist. https://youtu.be/qZcDHQQofaM |
Thank you timlub for your insight. Using REW, there is a dip around 200Hz. I have also deliberately created peak at the bottom frequencies because a flat response did not sound attractive. The strange think is contrary to a slight bump around 5kHz in REW measurement, the actual spectrogram of musical content shows a loss around 5khz. When speakers turned outwards the intense of HF reduces but evenly spread. In the video, the changes can be heard every 15 seconds. When listening to each position individually without referencing to the original recordings, all of the people who auditioned preferred the intense and clear sounding 15 second setup. However, when the same sound heard referenced to the original the preference changes. You are right that line array bipolar speakers may behave differently. |
