Does carpet deaden the sound too much?

 I've heard that an egg shaped room has perfect acoustics

I'm not sure I agree. Will have to ask a chicken 🐔

I have wall to wall carpet in my ‘Music Room’… I bought a pair of ZU, DW that have a vent hole/slot in the bottom of the cabinet. They sounded nice but had way to much bass. At the advice of a friend I ordered a pair of ‘Butcher Blocks’ to fit the size of the speaker cabinets. Once I put those speakers on top of the wood blocks, it sounded WAY better! It took away the muddy too much bass sound. The bass became much more ‘Punchy’ instead of ’Boomy’…

Whether we like it or not, and many do, the room is an inevitable part of the sound we experience.

I wonder if anyone has ever tried to play their system outdoors?

The closest I ever got was to lend mine for an engagement party set in very large hall, I'm guessing 25 metres long by 15 wide and maybe 7 high.  It was ok, if a little small sounding.

Domestic systems are basically small boxes operating within larger boxes.

"cd318, yes absolutely. The ears perceive the result of an acoustic generator (the speaker) inextricably influenced by the room they are playing in. The approach to this is to try and limit the damage  of the marriage.

 

 

ONLY balance between absorption, reflection and diffusion matter.... Only this balance...

Mechanical control of vibration with springs if possible will matter yes...

One thing is sure: i cannot understand room coustic at distance but only by listening experiments in this room...The distribution of acoustic properties of furmiture walls, and of any devices in the room will make huge impact... This is why just advising about the size and geometry of the room is too general information to optimize a room...

And the specific properties of the speakers not on specs sheet but in this specofic room will matter...

Then a rug can be good or bad, it is relative to the room/speakers properties and the material of the carpet and his location if it is a small one...

Acoustic is complex matter so much so, that many people can claim that their room is good without any acoustic treatment... They assimilate a not too bad room compared to their past experience with an OPTIMIZED room /speakers relation and they decided that any acoustic treatment and control is useless... We are free and if our ears are delighted why not? But acoustic optimization is an objective process guided by the ears not an opinion...

This is why acoustic is completely underestimated...

I will not speak about the most important tool, save to name it : Helmholtz resonators and diffusers tubes, what i called mechanical control over only passive material classical treatment... This mechanical control is what add something very important: the optimized relation of the room/speakers to your ears...Acoustic cues are not only Clarity, but are numerous others : bass control, dynamic, timbre, imaging, soundstage out of the speakers plane, listener envelopment /source width ratio or LEV/ASW, etc all these acoustic factors need to be improved by passive material treatment and need to be optimized by mechanical control with Helmholtz devices... it is complex to tune the devices yes, but it takes only time...

it is way more fun than upgrading with big money if you have a dedicated room for sure but even if it is in a living room some devices could be used and made esthetical...

Listening experiments are the more fun experience possible in audio...

 

 

A remark:

Any recording is an ARTIFICIAL FREE trade-off set of choices by the recording engineer...These choices made clear to us that the recording dont reproduce the original lived acoustic event but present an acoustical PERSPECTIVE on it or from it...

Then from this specific recording information choices there is no "reproduction" of the acoustical cues CONVEYED by the system play back analog/digital chain but there is a TRANSLATION through the system with his variable accuracy properties to the acoustical cues of your own speakers/room relation and to your specific ears...

Then unbeknownst to many there is TWO acoustic perspectives in relation with one another from any musical lived event translation: the recording choices and your speakers/room choices... Your room cannot be neutral like some think... It is impossible....Guess why?

Because each speakers/ room is completely different from an another one... And no ears/brain had the same training, innate taste, history, and biases...

There is no reproduction in high fidelity, it is an electronical engineer way of speaking about his goal : the least possible negative impact from the electronical design between two set of acoustic cues, the original one to be comveyed and the listener room one in wehich they will be translated into...... For the acoustician and for the listener there is only a TRANSLATION...

We are not RCA dog, we listen WITH and THROUGH the speakers/ room/ears/brain, not to the gear alone be it a gramophone pavilion like the RCA dog or an amplifier...

My best to all....

 

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