audiokinesis
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| 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... | |
| Poor Fritz I have heard Fritz speakers on several occasions at audio shows. They have sounded excellent every time. In my opinion they are outstanding both within their price range and within their size ballpark. Duke | |
| Sound Absorption Behind and Between the Speakers? Thank you very much, jbrrp1 and hilde45. Tvad, I’d be inclined to use diffusion rather than absorption, but I’m not expert enough in types of diffusion to make a suggestion beyond that. Phase grating comes to mind as a possibility. If you go with... | |
| Sound Absorption Behind and Between the Speakers? In a home audio setting, there is in effect a "competition" between the "small room signature" cues inherent to the playback room, and the "venue cues" which are on the recording, whether the latter be real or engineered or both. The ear/brain sys... | |
| Does the first reflection point actually matter?? "You could easily circumnavigate the laser point and it would be much much better than merely putting panels on that point." I don’t think I’ve ever advocated a "reflection POINT" paradigm; I think I’ve been talking about a reflection ZONE. "And ... | |
| Does the first reflection point actually matter?? " My gods we are being so literal." Let’s not descend into arguing about arguing. " I’m saying that if best acoustic principles call for 20% absorption on a wall surface near the speakers, whether those panels EXACTLY cover a reflection point whic... | |
| Does the first reflection point actually matter?? @erik_squires wrote: " What matters is that portion of the wall, and the overall, average results. For instance, covering 20% of the wall with absorption and 5% of it with diffusion, as needed. " It sounds like you are still looking at small rooms... | |
| Does the first reflection point actually matter?? @erik_squires wrote: "I believe most audiophiles would be unable to tell if those treatments were at the reflection points or not, and that in many cases 4 panels of 2’x2’, no matter how well placed, would be unable to effect an audible improvemen... | |
| Automatic Room Correction has won the Subwoofer Wars Mijostyn, you are correct that I don't have experience with the latest in room correction, but I have no reservations anyway about its use in the subwoofer region (aside from the presumably-outdated possible latency issue). My reservations about ... | |
| Does the first reflection point actually matter?? Erik wrote: " We shouldn’t spot treat surfaces. We should treat the surface. That is, putting 2’x2’ panels in exactly the side, rear and even floor reflection points is practically useless. What does work is to treat the floor, side and rear. " So... | |
| Does the first reflection point actually matter?? Hsw wrote: " Is this discussion only limited to lateral reflections? It seems to me the floor is the largest first reflection. " The floor bounce usually is the strongest early reflection, but perceptually is is not as detrimental as its magnitu... | |
| Does the first reflection point actually matter?? Erik wrote: " Which I agree with, but is subtly, different than what I am arguing about. :)" I guess I missed that subtlty. Could you rephrase it? Pretend like I’m really dense... or don’t pretend, as the case may be... ;^)Thanks.Duke |