Building a new Music Room Part 2
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Calculating the room. Paul walks us through the now empty music room at PS Audio. We understand his rule of thirds, slap echo and ceiling traps and watch the progress on building the listening room. Detailed instructions on how to measure your own room.
Sound chimneys! I can't wait to see if you tried that. It's sounds very interesting. Great series.
Paul, you go to Acoustic Fields, and get their QDAs and replace your Daad "diffusors" with them instead. Their QDAs will handle bass absorptions under 100Hz, as well as proper diffusion, they are kind of like 3 devices in one. They are SLICK products. Well built. I heard them fairly recently. Amazing products. Plus, he puts the QDAs on casters so you can move them around much easier.
what would have been ideal room size i wonder 35 ft long and 22 ft wide ?
Hi Paul great videos but your description of the rule of thirds and precedence effect are confusing if not wrong entirely. I believe the rule of thirds is to do with placing speakers and listeners in areas of moderate room mode activity i.e. where the bass response will be smoothest. It's nothing to do with the precedence effect. Your ear does not ignore reflected sounds, they are summed with the direct sound and that is what you hear.
Im confused. Placing passive direct radiating loudspeakers at 1/3 the front wall dimension and, allso, placing the seating position ALSO at 1/3 the long wall distance (from back wall), PUTS BOTH SPEAKERS AND YOUR EARS IN SAME BASS PEAKS AND NULL PROBLEMS!!!! NOT recommended, EVER!!
Off top of my head. Id be wanting to start with my loudspeakers front baffle bass woofers center at 1/6th room length , from front wall into the room, and the listening seat 1/3 into the room from back wall!!! This will most certainly MUCH BETTER balance the model nulls and peaks.
That and a single seat would also ideally NOT be smack in between the side walls, if rectangular room. This is also a problem , symmetrically , in a 2 loud speaker single listening position , stereo set up.
This is my first thinking line from beginning of this video. Anyway.
Hi Paul...yeah not sure what HP actually meant by rule of thirds. I find too many people into audio follow these generic speaker and listener placement principles which quickly break down in real rooms and with different speakers. Really one has to measure the room using acoustic measurements to optimize the bass and use recordings to optimize speaker separation, toe, rake. Re the precedence effect please read "From instrument to ear in a room: Direct or via Recording" JAES Vol 33 Nr 4, 1985
I've been drooling over those IRS since I saw them as a kid. Thank you for these vids and blogs. My 12 year old son has been bit by the audio bug badly. Him and I were sitting down to breakfast and watching this video :)
are the corners 90 degree right angles? Hopefully, they aren't.
Wow you are making a massive bass trap with a studio inside. Thats kinda Zen like approach. Is there a part 3 where we see the results from the effort?
The ceiling diffusor you describe sounds a lot like the ceiling of the big listening room at Lyric HiFi here in New York. I've been trying to figure out a cost effective way to do something like that, so it will be interesting to see what you come up with.
+1 for Nyal Mellor but i love this thanks :)
Nice video Paul. Hope to see more soon!
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