In Reply to: RE: The original post posted by Satie on September 30, 2011 at 16:45:02:
Hard to say, since as you change the angle, you're also changing the relative strength of the sidewall first reflections, and changing the separation of the front wall reflections (which could actually be reversed). As I recall it, the latter had a clear effect.
Do you mean behind the listener? I don't think that works. Reflection will be off the side wall and rear wall, and it will sound like you're facing in the wrong direction. I think I actually tried it at one point.
Interestingly, the nicely symmetrical room I was in was full of very asymmetrical junk -- dresser on the left, boxes on the right. It didn't seem to interfere much with the illusion though as I recall I did notice some asymmetry in the image. But as I said, I couldn't get it to work at all in my room upstairs.
One of the most interesting things I noticed is that frequency response and distortion didn't seem to be particularly important with this setup. It sounded realistic even when I could hear fairly gross distortion (from driving the little Monsoons hard enough to fill the room). The best way I can describe it is to compare it to an instrument that's played in two different rooms -- the frequency response is substantially different, but it still sounds real.
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