In Reply to: Just for arguement's sake Mr Inmate51 :) posted by 3db on June 19, 2015 at 05:21:49:
"...or one's high frequiency hearing is beginning to roll off?"
What did you say? Could you speak up - I can't hear you. ;)
It's well-known that a reverberation characteristic which is somewhat longer at the low end and shorter at the high end generally provides a more desirable room sound for music. It gives a greater sense of "fullness" or "body" to the sound. Whether or not this is related to our reduced sensitivity to lower frequencies, I don't know - I haven't ever studied it from that angle - but I'd suspect that it is.
With regard to acoustically "dead" rooms, that's an interesting point. If you've ever been in a really nice studio control room, you know what a pleasure it can be, even just for conversing with another person - forget the music, just talking sounds great! Here'e the funny thing, in a small-ish, dead-ish room, there really isn't a "reverberation time" per se. This is because the "reverberation time" is so short that the sound never gets to what we would call a "steady-state" level from which we can measure an RT60. This is not to say that the quality of the reverberant field isn't important - it is! - but it takes another set of skills to do small-ish dead-ish rooms well, and that's something which I haven't done in YEARS.
Hearing loss: Oddly enough, adding more high frequency content to the room makes things worse, not better. What we want is more detail, and adding more high frequency energy to the reverberant field doesn't accomplish that. This brings up the issue of speaker output, and how it affects the sound we hear, in the room we're in.
Does that answer your questions?
Based upon your questions, you don't appear to be a neo-audiophile.
Fess up. :)
:)
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- RE: Just for arguement's sake Mr Inmate51 :) - Inmate51 07:32:21 06/19/15 (1)
- RE: Just for arguement's sake Mr Inmate51 :) - 3db 08:42:53 06/19/15 (0)