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| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? @mahgister Gear obsession with no love or understanding for music nor for his acoustics and psycho-acoustic embeddings is a psychological disorder not a hobby ... I agree, and it's a type of psychological disorder that's not uncommon. The... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? @mijostyn Expensive curse? I guess the expensive part depends on how well off you are, and how expensive your tastes are. The curse part depends on whether it ultimately makes you unhappy and unwell. If you're constantly moving heavy speakers ... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? Yes, certain music need a bite on edges, but it needs to be the right bite on the right edges. Definitely a lot of recordings were not meant to sound real so there’s no way to get it to happen. Still, they can be quite enjoyable. As for "good en... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? Smoothness is a word that I use for systems with a very characteristic sound. One of the smoothest sounds I’ve ever heard came from an old VW van that some guy had restored and put a big sound system in. I was just walking by and he had the doors ... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? I find that a speaker’s frequency response should measure flat on axis under anechoic conditions, and follow a downward tilted curve at the listening position something close to the Harman curve to sound best overall to me. That seems to be one me... | |
| Corner base trap- to the ceiling? @emergingsoul I sell TubeTraps, and we think putting them in the corner stacked to the ceiling works great almost every time. It's not necessary to stack them all the way up to get a great result. RT60 time is the time it takes for the reverbe... | |
| Corner base trap- to the ceiling? @ditusa corner bass trap nonsense see below: Mike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwgrJVLniLc What Dennis is saying about modes is true. But the video misses the point that most of the acoustic problems we hear in our rooms are not modal! I... | |
| Garage into listening room? As @ghdprentice said. I'd set up in there as you described, have a listen, and if possible get some measurements. With a REW sweep you could see what the clarity reverb times are in there at various frequencies. That will give you some idea of... | |
| Room Too Dead @mannytheseacow Easily achieve the same effect DIY? I guess that depends on your definition of easy. Dennis recommends very extensive treatments of absorbers that use activated carbon. To do what he suggests is going to take a lot of effort and ... | |
| Room Too Dead @erik_squires Well that’s exactly the opposite of what we would hope to achieve with liberal use of TubeTraps, and not a complaint I’ve heard before concerning TubeTraps. One note bass has been used a lot to describe bass where a particular room... | |
| One key to building great systems over time. I think it’s true that you generally get what you pay for. But what you get by paying more may not always be something you want. This is what I’ve discovered in repeatedly being disappointed as I tried more exotic brands, and not just in audio. I ... | |
| Room Too Dead @soix That’s just mid bass and not what I’d consider “lows.” Mid bass is usually what needs to be gotten after. What you call "lows" are very difficult to absorb. I agree with your earlier statement that curtains and such are not going to ab... | |
| Room Too Dead @dekay +1 Thin plastic can reflect highs while still letting bass go through and get absorbed by underlying layers. You’ll need to get it distributed on opposite walls so the sound can bounce around again. By selectively livening up parts of... | |
| Bacch Dsp, True stereo? @hifidream I agree that highly directional speakers do certainly help with stereo imaging, but I couldn’t get them to do much in terms of crosstalk elimination. I’m using horn speakers right now in conjunction with crosstalk reduction and I’m ge... | |
| Bacch Dsp, True stereo? @pinthrift Thanks for the excellent review. If crosstalk reduction were more common, more recordings might be made in a more "hands off" way. As I stated earlier, I’ve not heard BACCH myself, but I’ve used a physical divider, and as you experien... |