My hifi room is uncorrected by any digital nannies (I use a Loki EQ for my headphones only) and my system sounds astoundingly good in its room with a what I suppose is called a "room sound." Music generally takes place in rooms if it's played by actual non digital instruments (as opposed to a synth played through headphones), and that sounds like real life in my earballs. I have some vibration pods here (they keep things from slipping around) and there but I really don't think vibration is such an enemy (my powered subs have the amps in the box with the speakers...horrifying!). If you live in a metal water tower or a shipping container with no furniture, you could have room issues...otherwise, room treatment obsession seems unnecessary...get some furniture maybe...a rug...sheep...
Do YOU have a flat frequency response in your room?
The most basic truth of audio for the last 30 years is listeners prefer a flat frequency response. You achieve that through getting the right speakers, in the right position, in the right room, and then use room treatments and DSP to dial it in. If you are posting questions about what gear to buy and have NOT measured your room and dialed it in to achieve a flat frequency response FIRST you are blowing cash not investing cash IMO. Have you measured the frequency response in your room yet and posted it?
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First off many of the Canadian speakers are designed in the national reaseach councils anicocic chamber. Every one of them sounds terrible because people don't listen to them in the same anicocic chamber in there home. But if someone aspires to build there room into that no problem you might want to try out a cheap Canadian speaker in your room when you get done. Perhaps they will sound ok in your room.
That being said I do know one fellow who has an anicocic chamber in his house but that is not his listening room that is for measurements of speakers. He is a writer for an offshore hifi magazine. |
Flat+ faithful reproduction of what the Sound Eng. and studio meant you to hear. I want to hear a trumpet or a pianie sound like they are live. Anything else is a muddied up mess that we have become used to over the years. I get up around live music and also participated multiple times and aspects of semi-pro music and trying to say that something less that a faithful sound form your speaker is desired is silly. Now I like using my DiracLive Mic plugged into my Celliophone and then using the Decibel-X App to see both the instantaneous and average response of my system. I was initially amazed at how true my speakers did the job I built them to do. If yo hear something you consider TOO BRIGHT, yo need to get your ears cleaned out or just learn what LIVE music actually sounds like. I don’t know why ANYONE would desire their system to produce something adulterated and not realistic. This takes me back to the days when everyone was getting a Graphic equalizer plugged into their system. I even did it for a short time, till I realized that it was the studio Eng and producers that made all of the music NOT realistic. We were trying to make up for what they had produced, forgetting that in most cases the SOUND that they created was in most cases what made or Broke an artist. SO in a sense we were all trying to find that flat response or what we saw as too much or Missing, but forgetting that the studio had some ulterior motive. Now a days we see a greater effort to make a realistic sounding musical presentation and now that we had gotten used to some distorted sound, we want to make what we hear now actually distorted. I do have an appreciation for both. The old sound was intentionally meant to sound a certain way and now I want to hear the TRUTH. It is as bad as corrupted politics. |
@asvjerry @nonoise Thanks for catching my typo, that should read. There is no "wrong" way to do this hobby
@asvjerry You obviously get the point, congrats on the speaker build, must be nice to have the satisfaction of being able to literally build the speaker to fit your room. Most of us have to change the room to fit the speaker, nice job!
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