Listen nearfield.
Room with glass windows as a walls.
My daughter moved from first floor townhouse apartment to 42nd floor skyscraper apartment and fifty percent of her apartment walls are actually glass windows from floor to ceiling now.
I helped her with setting up her system at old place and the sound was pretty decent however new apartment acoustic wise is total disaster.
Of course I did put her system together at new place but sound is terrible. She actually understands all my explanations about acoustic issues at new place, but she doesn’t take it seriously. My daughter actually listens to a lot of music, sometimes for hours however I wouldn’t call her audiophile, probably just a serious music lover and I understand that she will have listening fatigue pretty soon at her new place.
Acoustic treatment probably would be limited or refused due to esthetic and design incompatibility. Has anyone experienced setting up a system in such conditions, any advice?
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Lots of glass windows? Is this a loft apartment with high reflective ceilings, hard uncovered or untreated floors. Very little furniture to dampen reflective sound waves? Large open dimensional space? Starting with the windows is most likely the real killer in the picture, but also, just a beginning. To properly condition a space like this (assuming I'm correct) is a nightmare for an amateur. Hiring an acoustical specialist would most likely present a cost beyond the value of the system. Sounds like you'll be chasing this problem around without much true acoustical satisfaction, For a long time. If your daughter is a "serious listener" as opposed to just a casual listener, the sublime answer may be a good quality pair of headphones. Less hassle and less expense in the long run. Admittedly however, the drapery treatment, as several have mentioned, plus a lot of cushiony furniture will definitely help the situation, without going crazy. Listening at lower volumes will help as well. But don't rule out component placement. Especially the location and positioning of the primary satellite speakers. I'm certain that some experimentation is this area will yield a number of different results. I don't know what caliber of equipment she has. If it's just "mid-fi" as I call it, trying to treat the listening space is probably not worth it. If sound really matters to her, the other consideration might be to move at an opportune time. Then choose you apartment listening space carefully as much as other living space considerations. |
@axpert No, it’s not a loft apartment with a huge open space, and no reflective ceiling, floors are laminate. It’s one bedroom apartment with office room and living room divided by structural wall, but that wall is actually not a full wall and not connected with a glass window wall on the side, the space between them is approximately one feet. The system and speakers are facing this structural wall and the other window glass wall is behind the speakers.
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