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In Reply to: RE: Starting from scratch which piece of the system do you put in place first? posted by ppopp on December 02, 2016 at 14:01:29
When building a system from scratch, the first thing you have to nail down is where you're going to put it. The room constrains which types of speakers you should consider, whether you have neighbors or significant others to consider, what placement options you have, furniture and seating and layout, the kind of treatment you might need, the available electricity supply, the amount of SPL you need out of the speakers, whether to couple or isolate, and probably a bunch of other things.
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The problem is most people have no choice in the room. They are stuck with what they have. You most of the time have to have a system in the room to start playing with room correction methods
Alan
If you have the means to buy or build a dedicated audio room to the specifications of your choosing, then you have the luxury of selecting whatever speakers you want first and choosing or designing an appropriate room for them. For most everyone else who is starting from scratch, the room is what you start with, and it's what your system has to fit into and sound good in. It constrains all your other choices.
To me, the "room" isn't just the floor, walls, and ceiling. It's what's inside and how it's laid out and what else it's used for and what kind of placement and treatment options you have and so on… So even if you can't pick a different room to put your system in, there are still a lot of choices to make.
Yes."The room constrains which types of speakers you should consider,"
Absolutely. In that vein, I'll just add that choosing speakers is kind of a two step process: Get a handle on what general kind of sound you like by listening to a lot of speakers, and then match an appropriate model to the room with regard to physical size, dispersion characteristics and output capability.
Generally speaking, in a more live room, you'll want more directional speakers, and in a more dead room, you'll want wider dispersion speakers. This assumes that you want high quality sound and clarity along with some attention to controlling the reverberant field.
Then, match an amp to the speaker's needs for your desired listening levels.
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Edits: 12/03/16
... then what?
I love the music of Dmitri Shostakovich ...
Even if you have no choice of which room to put your system in, it's still the first thing to consider when building a new system and if you're starting from scratch it should be the first piece of the puzzle to sort out.
... among other the influences on selection of components
I love the music of Dmitri Shostakovich ...
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