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I can prove your room is bad

So you want to upgrade?  You want to know what the next big thing is you can do for a better sounding experience?

Try this.  Pull up a chair 2' in front of your speakers.  If you can't move the speakers, put it up to just 1, and listen for yourself.

The difference between what you hear sitting in front of the speaker like this, and what you hear at your normal location is all in the speaker dispersion and room acoustics. If you feel mesmerized, entranced, and wowed by your speaker at 2' but not 8' you really should consider improving the room, and if you can't, consider getting speakers with alternative room coupling, like ESL's, line arrays, bi-polars, etc.

That is all,


Erik
erik_squires
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lalitk
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milpai says to erik,

“Would love to see your room. You should certainly post your system here”.

Erik is a biggest advocate of GIK Acoustics and Room EQ but he won’t post his system for whatever reason 😎
audiokinesis
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Erik wrote:

"The difference between what you hear sitting in front of the speaker like this, and what you hear at your normal location is all in the speaker dispersion and room acoustics."

I can go along with that. 

So if the speaker’s off-axis response is poor, would you expect the room to fix it?

If so, how?

Duke
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b_limo
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@tvad , does said room come with a jacket by any chance?
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falconquest
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That's it!Buy headphones.
erik_squires OP
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So if the speaker’s off-axis response is poor, would you expect the room to fix it?

@audiokinesis

Oh, no, not me. :) That’s why I stated in the OP that the difference is in fact the combination of the room and speaker dispersion.


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