Very few residential rooms have any positive "room sound quality". The improvements with room treatment has as much to do with reducing "room sound" reverberations that distort the sound coming out of the speakers. This is really more important than modest deviations in frequency response, and will improve the sound quality of any room.
If you have a nice system why do you really need room treatments?
Yeah you may need an absorption panel if your room is completely open, ie. No rug or furniture, ie just lonely single chair. But if your system can't cut it in any room then it's a system problem and you should be able to discern a good system regardless of the room. Unless you put it on the roof of your apartment building but the Beatles seemed to have survived that effort
I think people go nuts with all this absorption acoustical room treatment stuff and it looks kind of awful. Once in a while you see a really cool looking diffuser panel and I would definitely want one. But to have a system that works really well without any of the acoustical panel distractions is a wonderful thing.
- ...
- 190 posts total
Like pulling teeth to get a description of the OP's system and room. Shocking, he has room treatment, although not sure if the room information provided is complete. At some point measurements are taken, with bass traps in a normal living room. It is not clear what was done to the room to cause a second set of measurements to be a little smoother. If room treatment is excessive, according to the OP, but based on measurements - What is the problem??? No doubt overdone room treatment exists as does no room treatment. Personal choice! The OP again demonstrates circular discussion, dissing room treatment, withhold system and room information, finally reveals personal room treatment along with implication of expertise regarding room treatment. Can anything from this OP be believed? |
Acoustics has nothing to do with "vaudoo science" You are misguided completely... But if you think that some panels on a wall solve all acoustics problem you are right ... They do not... But that does not means that acoustics is a superstition created by audiophiles.. Read a book ... 😊
|
@mahgister Totally agree with you here. |
I did post some details within this thread about my system. You don’t have any details on your system and I’m not really interested. I have a bass trap in the corner otherwise minimally treated room . I’m a big fan of getting rid of reverbs so one absorption panel is on the far wall but so hard to determine what it really does in the scheme of everything else in the room. Speakers are pulled forward quite a bit and I do know this really helps. All I’m saying is that lots of people just throw around a few acoustical panels in their rooms and because it’s a furnished room for most people I would guess most people are hard pressed to discern a difference. For those who have dedicated listening rooms that’s a whole Nother animal since furniture is minimal. If I had a decent looking diffuser panel I’ll probably put it on the damn wall. But I’ve never seen anything I really like looking at because most of them are pretty ugly and you need a lot of them. |
- 190 posts total