I guess it's a good thing I got a math degree before physics.
Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused
17 of 23 speakers in my studio and home theater systems are internally powered. My studio system is all Genelec and sounds very accurate. I know the best new concert and studio speakers are internally powered there are great technical reasons to design a speaker and an amp synergistically, this concept is much more important to sound quality than the vibration systems we often buy. How can an audiophile justify a vibration system of any sort with this in mind.
- ...
- 1204 posts total
@mijostyn , I had an issue with the window too. I hung a pair of Acoustic Lens diffusors and it worked perfect, I’ll try and upload a pic but as you see they let the light right through:
|
Small room acoustics is not science it’s an art when you consider the amount of refinement audiophiles expect in there finished product. This is a perfect example of the OP. There is so much myth and knowledge that is totally baseless in any sort of audiophile knowledge foundations that there is no way audiophiles can claw their way up the hills of acoustics, electronics, material physics, and psychoacoustics, as well as psychology to reach the relativistic goal of audio nirvana at your listening position. I use a Lyngdorf MC 60-2 with their program called "Room Perfect" these guys are really on to something including psychoacoustics. Trinnov is trying to linearize the room, impossible when you understand how much we don’t know. I went with Lyngdorf because of this exact issue.
|
I put a window too close to the right hand loudspeaker and somehow it was skewing the treble on that side. I had the window removed and the hole sided over, big improvement. I never would have known had I not measured it. I thought as long as the wall was reasonably flat it would be OK. I put blinds over the window and that did little to nothing. I had a similar problem, rather than remove the window I did some creative room treating. This also was in line with Anthony Grimani’s "acoustic recipe" in the video I posted earlier. This is a 3D diffusor that has an absorber mirroring it on the opposite wall. As you see it doesn’t block the light either, win/win. I’ll post the measurements I just took after installing my new preamp later: |
In order to run Anthems ARC Genesis room correction I connected the digital out of the Paradigm PW Link into my Sony dac/pre. Look at these results (the green line is the after). Anthem has all types of products with ARC, recommend you replace the TACT. With your 4 subs and PJ the Anthem AV90 is worth checking out. To get the results you want you can’t rely either on DSP or room treatments, you need to do both (remember to treat the ceiling too). I know you have a PJ, look how I worked around mine using a similar solution. The result is more than worth the effort: |
- 1204 posts total