The predominant focus on acoustics potentially fails to take into account their being relative to the speakers and their dispersive nature. That is, below the Schroeder frequency (seeing the room here as a resonator) a multitude of bass sources is the acoustic measure to at least partially alleviate the need for absorbers/bass traps/PEQ, while above the Schroeder frequency narrower dispersive characteristics from the likes of line sources, large coned drivers and horns will limit the influence of the room.
You remark is sound and wise....😊
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BUT you forget something not me.....
You forgot that the room is not ONLY AND MAINLY made of directions where the waves bounce on the 6 walls but if the room is like you said a resonator, the room is constituted by different pressure zones, and these zones are modified in my small room by a grid of 32 resonators which i used like a "mechanical equalizer"...( by the way the cost is zero because it is recycled pipes and tubes and straws)
Then this tool which is not less powerful than the passive material treatment and complement it, constitute what i called an active control of the room...
---Passive material treatment: reflection-absorption-diffusion in balance..
--- Active control: distributed finely tuned resonators which work with the wavefronts coming from each speaker to each ear in a precise timing treshold that will produce not only imaging and a better soundstage but more importantly a "listener envelopment" Or LEV experience which is the sensation when timing of the frontwaves are under control to be in the room where are the musician and not the musicians being in your room...For example, in some recording the voices of the singers come from behind me and the orchestra sound come from the opposite wall where are the speakers, then i am in the midst of the opera scene....In active control i used also a grid of connected Schumann generators with success they contribute but less powerfully than my "mechanical equalizer"....
Give me any relatively good speakers and i will be happy AFTER my installment of acoustic control not before ....
The room is way more important than the speakers, if they are relatively good one to begins with for sure.... Like my Tannoy was or my actual Mission Cyrus....It is unbelievable but this is my experience...
Because most people have never experience it and will never experience it, this will stay unbelievable...
We never listen to our speakers, we listen to our room, EVEN in nearfield listening, contrary to a false belief in audio threads...
The sound waves speed made them crossing my 13 square feet "bad" room 80 times in one second.... Meditate about this....And our brain work in approx. 80 millisecond treshold slices to create the sound 3-d presence impression correlating each ear first frontwaves cues with one another....
This is the meditation about this fact that inspired me to create my "mechanical equalizer" after reading some acoustical paper research about timing thresholds importance for the LEV experience...
No speakers, nevermind his specs sheets, could replace by only itself the room controls for the sound recreation in all characteristic, natural timbre experience, imaging, lev, asw, soundstage etc....
Most people ignoring this speak about speakers like they speak about "tastes".... This is only ignorance of acoustic....
