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In Reply to: RE: Acoustics for different room types posted by Brad225 on October 27, 2009 at 14:20:02
The "conventional wisdom" is that a 2-channel room should be more live sounding than a home theater room. But I mostly disagree with that philosophy. After all, movies have music too!
How a room should be treated depends a lot on its dimensions. Generally, a small room needs to be more dead sounding than a large room simply because small room ambience sounds pretty lousy and boxy.
In my view, a listening room should aim, first and foremost, to be neutral sounding. No obvious resonance or echoes, or comb filtering, and with bass peaks and nulls reduced as much as possible. Once you've achieved that, the room will sound excellent for everything you play. I use my living room for both stereo music and video movies / TV. My room is very well treated, and I'm totally satisfied with it for all uses. I even mix music in surround there sometimes because my main home studio upstairs has stereo playback only.
--Ethan
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