drmatt wrote: > In truth whatever you choose your ears will adapt to it and unless it's > chronically ill suited to your tastes it will be quite enjoyable. > > > -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk-
H Doc! We are in agreement about many things, & I endorse your statement that if you sit in the same place in your room your brain will quite quickly resolve the resonances of your room & reject the delayed reflections from the walls of your listening space which arrive at your ears later then the direct sound waves from your loudspeakers. I can even introduce an evolutionary conjecture (deliberately so-described because it would be fiendishly difficult to test!) to justify this position. Before we were forced to step out onto a savannah (created by global weather effects, but still very recently in evolutionary terms) our more distant ancestors would have lived their lives in a chaotic jungle environment, not unlike my cat who seems to prefer my natural untidiness & complains vociferous at my admittedly sporadic & generally demotivated efforts to reduce my clutter! The point being that survival in such an environment is critically dependent upon one's ability to distinguish direct from reflected sounds, the alternative being becoming some unpleasantly large & ferocious predator's lunch which is obviously a one-way ticket to oblivion... So you can acoustically treat your listening space to your heart's content, or use complex DSP software in an attempt to convert it into an anechoic chamber, but the only effect will be to impress occasional visitors who are not used to your room's acoustic. Really the only sensible use of that stuff is in a recording studio so that the recorded end product has no unusual sonic signature when compared to your other programme material. OR to stop your neighbours banging on your walls quite so often if they are getting a lot of low frequency resonance after your room boundary has stopped all the HF & even MF stuff getting through. :D To use a political analogy, as Machiavelli pointed out, it is actually best to choose your Prince at the outset & stick with him! Dave :cool: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Golden Earring's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107946 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
