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Difusers on the speakers?

I’ve read hundreds of posts on this forum about room treatments,

Today the following occured to me

  • Many posts talks about room treaments - specifially diffusers - and how their placement benefits sound quality by dispersing/absorbing reflected sound waves
    • my speakers are a rectangular box 10" wide and 40" tall with a very flat front
    • it occured to me that having some type of diffuser (or absorbtion material) on the front of them might improve sound quality

My guess is that speakers with a slightly curved front has a buit in diffuser

Has anyone tried this?

What was the result?

Cheers - Steve

 

williewonka
newbee
4,767 posts
 

Folks have been surrounding their tweeters with thick felt for ages. This can lower off axis information and help quiet a bright sounding driver. No so much on other drivers. Good DYI project for a rainy day. Cheap and easily reversible if you find it is not beneficial.

theaudiotweak
2,801 posts
 

No I use devices that I build that increase laminar flow on top of the speakers, bottom of the speaker stands and at 4 postions of my Sistrum Rack. Supplemented with my active laminar flow device midway in the room. Tom

havocman
350 posts
 

just try the Townshend podiums, they're expensive but oh my goodness it's like having a whole new system it makes that big of a difference isolating the speakers from vibrations.

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asvjerry
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What do you find objectionable?

Hard to cure what you've not really described....room treatments v. the speakers themselves are 2 very different cans of worm..... ;)

@theaudiotweak , went to your site....liked the planars (dipole fan), but not in the market.  I'll need to browse further later.....*G*

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