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The Room

Wanted to start a discussion about the importance of The Room. I had my system in a room 30x40 feet with concrete floors and 9 foot ceilings. Never felt right. Then because I am a health care provider, I got kicked out of the main house because of COVID concerns and into the guest apartment. I then put my system in the guest house into a 14x25 foot space. Very much different. Actually, a world apart difference. So much better.  Not saying I did it right or wrong. Just saying that it is amazing the difference a room can play. Whether treated of not, the room plays a dramatic outcome in the reproduction of sound.
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Thanks for this article....
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Rooms with dimensions exact multiples of each other are worse. 12x12x12 would be a horror show. 16x24x8 would not be great either.
This is where active room controls play his most important part....The passive way are sometimes enough  but in this case the active way is essential i know because my room is roughly in this case....8 by 8 by 12.... :)

Active controls: various kind of resonators of different size, helmholtz bottles, schumann generators modified...
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speakers+room+ears are only one not 3 elements.....

This is call the acoustical embeddings of an audio system and must be passively treated(materials) and actively controlled....

The 2 other embeddings are the mechanical resonant dimension...

And the electrical grid of the house....

These simple things must be said because they are lost in translation.... Audio is not only linked to electronic design mainly, but to these 3 embeddings first....
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