No , I nailed the essential point, which I stated very clearly,.... you have to pick speakers that work in the room
Nobody will argue that we must choose first a relatively good speaker set...If the essential point is what we must do first, you win....😁 But for me it is NOT the essential part at all....
This is EASY to buy a relatively good pair of speakers, very easy.... BUT Controls of the room are NOT so easy to install...
Second you have not understood my point:
The comparative change and upgrading value of a room BEFORE and AFTER controls installation EXCEED the difference between the choice of two relatively good speakers....
Think a minute about the number of people owning already a relatively good pair of speakers versus the number of people owning a relatively rightfully controlled room...
There is no COMPARISON between the 2 numbers...the first number is huge compared to the second one.... I dont speak about the number of people here who would say that their room is good.... I speak about a room REALLY under controls...
But you missed my point because you cannot imagine what is a controlled room and how powerful it is....
Most people think that they own a good room already....It is an illusion...
How can you know the effect of acoustical control when you never lived through it?
I speak about controls of the room not only room with some bass traps and some passive materials treatment...I speak about an ACTIVATED room versus a passive room...
Anyway keep your illusion...
But here is a test:
If you want to know if your room is under controls, listen to The Three penny opera 1958 by Kurt Weill with Lotte Lenya and if you could listen the orchestra playing in front of you, seating in front of your speakers, but the singers voices coming from your back wall where there is no speakers, your room is under acoustic controls....Acoustic is the cake and timing tresholds of the first frontwaves are the key....Anybody could buy a good pair of speakers but it is the room controls which will decide what you will hearing or not....
I bet that if you pass the test all orchestra+singers will be in front of you but who knows?....This the difference between the musicians in your room and you being in the scene "enveloped" by the sound experience....
I use this exceptional recording of Kurt Weill because the sound engineer make possible this test so good his recording tech. was....
By the way the acoustical characteristic or concept i described in this test is called the "listener envelopment" or LEV... No speakers will give you this experience of the " listener envelopment" at any price in a bad room....
Then in a word: speakers are REPLACEABLE, room are not, especially a room under controls......
And most people claim the opposite: their beloved speakers and costly one are irreplaceable, and their room is replaceable or secondary and their room is always OK anyway in their mind, so much the importance of the speakers design weight more than acoustical laws.......
The truth is ANY speakers must be adapted first to the geometry and size of the room where it will work for sure, but a room without controls will not create miracles even with speakers well chosen for it .... This is the meaning of my affirmation....
