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RE: I am still amazed..

Funny. I actually go out of my way to demonstrate that acoustic treatments significance is next to nill, if not nill. Unless perhaps the room is extremely unreasonable.

When I exhibited at a few shows in 2011, I intentionally left all the pictures and mirrors in the rooms on the wall and uncovered.

At one show I had the smallest sized room with large full-range speakers at at times played at 100 - 105 db. Besides the very positive comments on the sound itself, the next most common feedback I overheard was these speakers should be overwhelming the room but they're not or these speakers should be boomy but they're not. Never at a single show did one person comment on first reflection issues, poor acoustics, etc.

Think of it this way. Imagine you had a live jazz band playing in your living room at reasonably loud but still enjoyable levels. The last thing on your mind would be acoutically treating the room and you wouldn't think twice about first or second reflections, bass suck outs or humps, etc.

Simply because you are hearing a live band in its entirety including every music note and its complete info. Would they sound better in a recording or concert hall? Sure they would. But they would sound no less live.

Now take a SOTA-level playback system that is reproducing only a small percentage of the entire music info embedded in the recording where the music is boomy, flat, 2-D, lifeless, shouty, and every sharp note is beaming straight for your ear like a laser. Or perhaps I'm ill-equipped to properly set up a room and place the speakers. Perhaps in these circumstances, room treatments and acoustic anomalies become the most important thing. But I wouldn't know nuthin' 'bout that.


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  • RE: I am still amazed.. - stehno 22:14:22 01/07/15 (0)

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