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In Reply to: RE: How's this for a listening room? posted by Skye on May 17, 2012 at 19:57:08
Skye, you wrote folding door or words to that effect. A non-massive folding door is transparent to bass frequencies. The adjoining room will act either as a bass trap or an extension of the room for bass modes, depending on door and wall thickness.
Here is an inexpensive tip:
Phonic sells the PPA3 RTA with 30 frequency bands, RT-60, absolute phase, memory and AVG functions, plus an USB interface to store the graphs in your computer. Street priceis about U$ 350.
It comes with a test CD. Play the pink noise track in Repeat mode through your system and place the RTA where the listener's head would be, with the aid of a short camera tripod.
With this simple tool, you will be able to position the speakers, your chair/couch and bass traps looking for the most even bass response (30 to 300Hz). Small; peaks and valleys are inevitable.
Then you can play with curtains, carpets and acoustic panels to obtain a ~0.6 seconds RT-60 and a declining treble frequency response above 10 KHz, which is the correct response given the distance from speaker to listener and normal room absortion.
Do NOT try to obtain ruler-flat treble response, it will sound bright as hell.
Another tip: ask the realtor to leave you alone and walk around the room while talking to yourself. If your voice is deep, you will hear the bass modes resonating around your head as you walk. You may want to practice at home to be able to do it quickly while house-shopping.
More details: search Wilson room/speaker setup method.
Have fun!
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