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I can prove your room is bad

So you want to upgrade?  You want to know what the next big thing is you can do for a better sounding experience?

Try this.  Pull up a chair 2' in front of your speakers.  If you can't move the speakers, put it up to just 1, and listen for yourself.

The difference between what you hear sitting in front of the speaker like this, and what you hear at your normal location is all in the speaker dispersion and room acoustics. If you feel mesmerized, entranced, and wowed by your speaker at 2' but not 8' you really should consider improving the room, and if you can't, consider getting speakers with alternative room coupling, like ESL's, line arrays, bi-polars, etc.

That is all,


Erik
erik_squires
jhills
627 posts
 
@erik_squires Roy Allison and others would have argued: What is it with these lame ass speaker designers who don't design their speakers to be up against a wall where they belong?? 

WOW! I hope my wife doesn't read that. It took almost two years for her to except that 4' out is where they belong....Jim :-(
kenjit
1,771 posts
 
Listening to music in an anechoic chamber, it is completely dead and lifeless and sounds nothing like what you hear in a music hall, theater, lounge or chapel.

when did you try it?
erik_squires OP
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Some one marked my comments about Roy Allison as offensive.

Show yourself, scoundrel.  :D :D :D
jhills
627 posts
 
@kenjit
About 22 years ago at a sound studio in LA. How about you?

Is a great tool for mixing, editing or picking out nuances in the music; not so much if you just want to enjoy a musical performance. 

Jim
kenjit
1,771 posts
 
About 22 years ago at a sound studio in LA. How about you?
Whats the name of it? How do you know it was the room? more likely the speakers were not tuned to your ears!
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