andy_c wrote: > My understanding from reading the paper and Toole's book is that > reflections from the front and back walls may not be beneficial for > giving the illusion of spaciousness because the reflected components of > the sounds in the left and right ears caused by them are highly > correlated, while the opposite is true for side wall reflections. > > My home that I moved into a few years ago is one of those "open-plan" > homes that seem to be popular nowadays. Also, it has hard tile floors > on all but the bedrooms and study. So kitchen, dining room, living room > and hallway running all the way from front door to back are all hard > tile. Floors and ceiling are drywall. When I first moved in, it > sounded like a cave, with all sorts of late echoes. In the listening > area, I put a large area rug, big squishy leather couches and chair > forming a U shape, and hanging decorative rugs on front and back walls > (but not the side). This seems to have completely tamed the cave effect > in the living room where my system is, but it is still prevalent in the > kitchen and dining room, which are dominated by hard surfaces. > > Next project is multiple subwoofers! That's an interesting aspect of > the paper too.
Ah. I have it all backwards. The room size and the way it's furnished doesn't really allow for much squishy stuff on the front och back walls, so I have not done anything there. But I've always taken comfort in the fact that at least I have book shelves on the side walls of the room. Perhaps any amount of soft matter at the front or back would be an improvement? Sometimes I see people having a kind of room treatment, a sort of board roughly the size of a newspaper, standing on the floor by the front wall, directly behind the speakers. Do they help much? I use Digital Room Correction and it makes a substantial improvement. But it's very obvious that you can't cheat the laws of physics. Since we're discussing psychoacoustics, perhaps this new knowledge alone will make me less satisfied with the sound of my current setup. I'd like to, but dare not use subwoofers. I have a neighbor with such a contraption and this buildning clearly wasn't constructed with that in mind. I don't want to stress my neighbors more that I already do. And I do. But just for adding to my brainweight, or in case I move house soon (I'm looking), please let me know any good ideas. Best Regards, Gandhi not often enough well recorded and mastered cds *|* dbpoweramp with accuraterip *|* flac *|* fanless asrock z77e-itx intel i5-3570t *|* ubuntu 12.04.1 lts 32-bit *|* lms 7.8.0 *|* brutefirdrc 3.0 *|* transporter (balanced out) *|* thule ia252b *|* audio physic scorpio *|* no fancy cables. *+* also some booms. *+* harmony 525s for them all, including waking the server from s3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gandhi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58909 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101723 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
