My room is well damped. Here is video of the sound with speaker angle about 8 degree and straight.
you can find more videos in the playlist.
https://youtu.be/qZcDHQQofaM
you can find more videos in the playlist.
https://youtu.be/qZcDHQQofaM
Speaker Placement
My room is well damped. Here is video of the sound with speaker angle about 8 degree and straight. you can find more videos in the playlist. https://youtu.be/qZcDHQQofaM |
I can't tell much of how your room looks from that video, but tow in is a different animal as far as tonal balance... a full tow pointing at the ears should be as close as you can get to the actual frequency response of your speaker. As you turn the speakers outward, you star rolling off the top end - mid, the farther you turn toward straight, the more you roll off the top, at some point, you will start dealing with the interaction of your speakers dispersion bouncing off the side wall and that will also effect your tonal balance along with the top end roll off. Then with panel speakers or baffleless designs, you have to deal with frequencies being projected from both sides of the speaker. With these 2 designs, you have much more room interaction to deal with.... My post were mainly directed to the Op who is using a standard baffle mount drivers with his B&W's |
Thank you timlub for your insight. Using REW, there is a dip around 200Hz. I have also deliberately created peak at the bottom frequencies because a flat response did not sound attractive. The strange think is contrary to a slight bump around 5kHz in REW measurement, the actual spectrogram of musical content shows a loss around 5khz. When speakers turned outwards the intense of HF reduces but evenly spread. In the video, the changes can be heard every 15 seconds. When listening to each position individually without referencing to the original recordings, all of the people who auditioned preferred the intense and clear sounding 15 second setup. However, when the same sound heard referenced to the original the preference changes. You are right that line array bipolar speakers may behave differently. |