millercarbon,do you use HFT's with traditional acoustic treatments,or are these applied alone?
Sorry for the late reply. So many threads ruined so often and so fast by the same few people I tend to say what I think needs to be said and then that's that. But anyway...
Here's a photo of my room. Its old, 2004, but its good because it shows some of what I went through. http://theanalogdept.com/c_miller.htm
The yellow panels are Owens Corning acoustic panels, the same as used inside 90% of expensive professional room treatment. There's people like Duke (Audiokinesis) you can trust to post gold. Then there's guys like me who have to work at it more. This photo is working at it.
Just like Duke said above, its real easy to over-do it, acoustic panels predominately affect the top end, and so can really alter the rooms acoustic. So this was moving them around learning first hand just what that means. The room now has none on the walls. Only the corner tunes remain. Very effective, with hardly any downside in terms of being overly damped.
My tests were made moving whole panels around. First reflections requires only about a one foot square. It could be that if I went back and tried just a small one like that, might like it. Heck now to think of it got some in the shop might just do that. Just because it sounds great doesn't mean it can't sound even greater.
HFT are a completely different technology, much more sophisticated, work regardless of the room, and so are used together with the same traditional acoustic panels.
They don't have to be. Look around YouTube, there's a demo in a very ordinary room, pretty crappy room actually, way too lively, way to sparsely furnished, no acoustic treatment at all. Ted adds HFC and even on laptop YouTube you can hear the improvement. Pretty remarkable stuff.
Sorry for the late reply. So many threads ruined so often and so fast by the same few people I tend to say what I think needs to be said and then that's that. But anyway...
Here's a photo of my room. Its old, 2004, but its good because it shows some of what I went through. http://theanalogdept.com/c_miller.htm
The yellow panels are Owens Corning acoustic panels, the same as used inside 90% of expensive professional room treatment. There's people like Duke (Audiokinesis) you can trust to post gold. Then there's guys like me who have to work at it more. This photo is working at it.
Just like Duke said above, its real easy to over-do it, acoustic panels predominately affect the top end, and so can really alter the rooms acoustic. So this was moving them around learning first hand just what that means. The room now has none on the walls. Only the corner tunes remain. Very effective, with hardly any downside in terms of being overly damped.
My tests were made moving whole panels around. First reflections requires only about a one foot square. It could be that if I went back and tried just a small one like that, might like it. Heck now to think of it got some in the shop might just do that. Just because it sounds great doesn't mean it can't sound even greater.
HFT are a completely different technology, much more sophisticated, work regardless of the room, and so are used together with the same traditional acoustic panels.
They don't have to be. Look around YouTube, there's a demo in a very ordinary room, pretty crappy room actually, way too lively, way to sparsely furnished, no acoustic treatment at all. Ted adds HFC and even on laptop YouTube you can hear the improvement. Pretty remarkable stuff.