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| I'm never going to hear a megaspeaker in a good room am I? @erik_squires wrote: "So in a small room, I can’t imagine actually wanting to enhance the reverberant amplitude or timing per se. To my ears, the congestion in clarity, especially dialogue suffers too much." Might that "congestion" be due to an ex... | |
| I'm never going to hear a megaspeaker in a good room am I? @erik_squires, in a big room like an auditorium, with listeners being far away from the speakers, the direct-to-reverberant sound ratio is MUCH lower than in a home audio setting, where we are much closer to the speakers. In a big room the reverbe... | |
| I'm never going to hear a megaspeaker in a good room am I? Erik wrote: "don’t most listening rooms have too long of an RT 60 to begin with, not to mention, it is usually pretty uneven.’ In general when we move into a larger listening room the RT60 will correspondingly tend to be longer, but the larger ro... | |
| I'm never going to hear a megaspeaker in a good room am I? Erik posted: " I don’t mean to nit pick but you listed this as beneficial: 1. Increased time delay between the first-arrival sound and the onset of the lateral reflections, and a generally increased decay time. "Did you mean the last part? I thou... | |
| I'm never going to hear a megaspeaker in a good room am I? The three speakers Erik identifies as having sounded good in "mediocre" rooms are all speakers which have relatively smooth off-axis response as well as other characteristics which generally result in good in-room response: The Vandersteen Model 7... | |
| I am indecisive about choice due to room size "Sit 2’ from your speakers and listen to them. The difference between that and your chair is room acoustics." The difference is the speaker’s off-axis response plus the room’s acoustics. Duke | |
| Poor Fritz @jjss49 and @erik_squires make valid points. I've removed my trollfood posts, in hopes of cleaning up the thread a little bit. Duke | |
| I am indecisive about choice due to room size Many Japanese audiophiles do something highly counter-intuitive: They use large horn loudspeakers in small rooms. Speakers conceptually similar to the Altec Model 19. But maybe they are onto something: These large-format horn loudspeakers have fai... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world Thank you, jdlynch. That’s a big space. Imo you can probably get good results with three subs, since the space is so large. Okay, here’s what comes to mind: Add two more subs, which probably need not be as big and as capable as the Submersive, and... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world @jdlynch wrote: "Does the swarm system work equally as well for home theater and music listening? I am 90% HT use and powerful, room shaking, chest pounding bass is what I’m looking for. I currently have a single Seaton Submersive with dual oppose... | |
| Best room treatment @soix wrote: "I highly recommend reading “Premium Home Theater” by Earl Geddes that I believe is now only available through download. By far the most approachable and helpful thing I’ve read on creating a good-sounding room. I’d go so far ... | |
| Does your pet listen to your system? I have a customer whose dog could recognize when he played a new piece of classical music that the dog hadn’t heard before. He would come running into the room and stare at the speakers (big SoundLab electrostats) with his head cocked to one side.... | |
| Speakers which always sound good Imo there are general design attributes which can contribute to a speaker sounding consistent (and hopefully consistently good) from one room to the next. If the reflected or reverberant energy sounds like the direct sound, then whether the room r... | |
| Am I too big of a jerk,even for audiogon? @erik_squires wrote: "Technically, my post is a parody." Well done! I’d like to phrase my $.02 worth of commentary in the form of an allegory: Once upon a time there was a family whose value system included kindness to other creatures. They recei... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world Kenjit wrote: " If you are nothing but a fellow DBA advocate, why is it that you are the only one whose name pops up everytime DBA is mentioned on this forum? Why do you have the right to claim ownership of the DBA concept by using a proprietary n... |