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L.I.A.R. (No not you Clark - that stands for "listening in another room")

I like to listen from outside the room as part of evaluating what a speaker is doing.

From the next room, all you can hear through the open doorway is the reverberant field (assuming you do not have line-of-sight to either speaker). In effect, you are throwing a spotlight on the speaker's reverberant field by excluding the direct sound. What comes through the open doorway will tell you a lot about the spectral balance of the reverberant energy in the room. What it will not tell you is the spectral balance of the direct sound, and that might still be peaky if the speaker has a lot of variation in its radiation pattern.

The reverberant field matters for a variety of reasons, not least of which is its influence on perceived timbre: Most of the sound power that reaches your ears in a normal speaker/room setup is reverberant energy, not direct energy. While the ear is largely ignoring the room reflections as far as imaging goes, the reflections still play a very significant role in perceived timbre and perceived loudness.

Duke

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