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
Listening to music in an anechoic chamber, it is completely dead and lifeless and sounds nothing like what you hear in a music hall, theater, lounge or chapel.

when did you try it?
Some one marked my comments about Roy Allison as offensive.

Show yourself, scoundrel.  :D :D :D
@kenjit
About 22 years ago at a sound studio in LA. How about you?

Is a great tool for mixing, editing or picking out nuances in the music; not so much if you just want to enjoy a musical performance. 

Jim
About 22 years ago at a sound studio in LA. How about you?
Whats the name of it? How do you know it was the room? more likely the speakers were not tuned to your ears!
I have umteen acoustical panels and bass traps, but until I bought a DBX Rackdrive 360, I could never get the bass balanced the way it should be. Sounds great now. BTW I have two JL Fathom 113’s
Having said that, I have said many times-you need to think of your room as a separate component.