Room Acoustics


Just tested my media room using the Rives test disc (pink noise) and a RS analog SPL meter.

Couple of things:
- I kneeled behind the meter, which was set on a tripod in my so-called sweet spot for two channel. Certain midrange frequencies were very sensitive to my location and movement.
- For the heck of it I put some FG acoustical treatments (4'x2') at the first reflection points. Plotted the data and found that it impacted some frequencies but appeared to create more spikes a troughs than without!

I am interested in how some of these room treatment companies can quote you a package without measurement!

I'm going to repeat the test from all seven seating locations. Expect to see some wide variation.
quicke

Showing 3 responses by sogood51

You may want to smooth-out the bass response in your room with bass traps and then work on the other freq. to make the job more easy. Upper freq. will be very easy to deal with unless you have a reverb-chamber for a room.

Dave
No bias here. Room treatments that get over-all freq. response with-in even 6-8db is very good in most rooms. These room correction devices can only help even more if used correctly.

Between speaker placement, seating placement, room treatments, and some mild room correction you should be able to smooth things out to a great degree.

Another nice feature of some of the correction devices is the fact that you also get an active digital X-over with many settings.

Dave
Thanks Mprime, we have a member of the Apogee speaker user forum with Apogee Mini Grands. He has used the TacT unit to tweak his system/room with fantastic results as reported by him and other members who have listened to the before and after results.

He mentioned that before the TacT he could never fully enjoy his system because of his room.

Dave