Do YOU have a flat frequency response in your room?


The most basic truth of audio for the last 30 years is listeners prefer a flat frequency response. You achieve that through getting the right speakers, in the right position, in the right room, and then use room treatments and DSP to dial it in. If you are posting questions about what gear to buy and have NOT measured your room and dialed it in to achieve a flat frequency response FIRST you are blowing cash not investing cash IMO. Have you measured the frequency response in your room yet and posted it?

 

kota1

I do believe that there are other more important elements to your sound than a flat frequency response.  Yes, boomy bass or harsh top-end is intolerable, but I would put soundstage, timing, coherence, dynamics, and musicality way above a flat frequency response in terms of desirability.  
 

The attraction of aiming for a flat (or bespoke) frequency response is that it is entirely measurable and achievable for anyone via DSP, and largely component-independent if done electronically or through room correction. Fine-tuning it to perfection appeals particularly to those who like to measure stuff.   The other audio nirvanas (soundstage, timing etc.) listed in my paragraph above are more component-dependent and not measurable and explain precisely why upgrading or changing equipment is the route most travelled.  

 

 

@duckworp, yup and the pursuit of one's personal nirvana is pretty much the other name of the game. *G*

And, of course, enthusiasm and budget to float ones' boat. ;)  I've just grown relaxed about it....

My hifi room is uncorrected by any digital nannies (I use a Loki EQ for my headphones only) and my system sounds astoundingly good in its room with a what I suppose is called a "room sound." Music generally takes place in rooms if it's played by actual non digital instruments (as opposed to a synth played through headphones), and that sounds like real life in my earballs. I have some vibration pods here (they keep things from slipping around) and there but I really don't think vibration is such an enemy (my powered subs have the amps in the box with the speakers...horrifying!). If you live in a metal water tower or a shipping container with no furniture,  you could have room issues...otherwise, room treatment obsession seems unnecessary...get some furniture maybe...a rug...sheep...

First off many of the Canadian  speakers are designed  in the national reaseach councils anicocic chamber.  Every one of them sounds terrible because  people don't listen to them in the same anicocic  chamber  in there home. But if someone aspires to build there room into that no problem you might want to try out a cheap Canadian  speaker  in your room when you get done. Perhaps  they will sound ok in your room. 

 

That being  said I do know one fellow who has an anicocic chamber  in his house but that is not his listening  room  that is for measurements of speakers. He is a writer for an offshore hifi magazine.