I will add that owning a small room can be a very good thing because it is more easy to use secondary reflections with a usable time synchronisation to work with...
Near listening dont eliminate the problem of the room at all contrary to a common misunderstanding...
Near listening is affected by the room presence or absence of controls almost at the same extent that regular listening position, only a bit less, then the false idea that near listening free the listener of the acoustical impact of the room comes from that erroneous impression...I speak here about small room where device like resonators can be very useful to controls sound....Big musical hall are another problem completely...
« Refracted waves all the way down are good and reverberations delicious»- Bat proverb
«My body hear better when i make love»-Groucho Marx
« Planets also hear better in that case, it is because of others body proximity brother»-Harpo Marx
Near listening dont eliminate the problem of the room at all contrary to a common misunderstanding...
Near listening is affected by the room presence or absence of controls almost at the same extent that regular listening position, only a bit less, then the false idea that near listening free the listener of the acoustical impact of the room comes from that erroneous impression...I speak here about small room where device like resonators can be very useful to controls sound....Big musical hall are another problem completely...
« Refracted waves all the way down are good and reverberations delicious»- Bat proverb
«My body hear better when i make love»-Groucho Marx
« Planets also hear better in that case, it is because of others body proximity brother»-Harpo Marx