Planar Speakers and Diffusors

Update:

If you guys check out my system page, you will see that behind the Clarisys speakers I do have installed some plastic diffusors that I purchased from Amazon. I think they cost $62 for a package of 12.

Anyway, today, based on this thread and comments I removed them. From what I now hear there is a more unified deep soundstage.

So, based on this, I no longer think diffusors behind the Clarisys speakers to be a positive thing.

ozzy

@ozzy 

Thanks for sharing your experience.  Next, you may want to try adding absorption panels behind the speakers.  Start with a few, and see what you think:  perhaps you will find the imaging more precise, and the sound less bright.  Whether that's a desirable characteristic for your system will have to be determined by yourself.  There are many places that sell sound absorption panels.  

I started off just placing absorption panels directly behind both speakers, and I appreciated the sonic improvement, so I placed absorption panels on the entire back wall (with bass traps in the corners).  It does make the sound quality less bright, but more detailed.  It might dull the sound too much for some systems.  

@drbond, by “back wall” are you speaking of the wall behind your speakers (in front of you as you listen)? 
 

@kykat 

Yes, thanks for catching that!

In that last post, I typed: "I placed absorption panels on the entire back wall (with bass traps in the corners)."

I should have typed "on the entire front wall" (behind the speakers).  
 

drbond,

I do have some 4-foot absorbent type panels that I could place behind the speakers against the wall temporary. But I think I started out this way...

ozzy