Hi Dan, let me go through your questions one by one. Yes my background was in sound engineering, as a tracking, mastering and live sound engineer. All of the corners in my listening room are at a 90° aspect to each other. The RT response in my room was improved by a not inconsiderable 4 Ms with the latest changes I've made. Most of this would have been because I closed the curtains. My listening position has me sitting with a window directly behind me. I have treated that area in the past, but doing what I've done in the room this time and closing the curtains has improved things quite a bit. It's a little difficult to talk in just numbers Dan as you would imagine, but I have always had an 80Hz problem in this room and still do to a certain extent, but I have improved the room audibly with the changes I've made in this and the corresponding sucked out at 160 Hz. I've got other things in the pipeline that I'll be talking about on the channel soon. This I'm hoping will improve things even further. But I guess only time will answer that question. This reshuffling and these small changes have made a much bigger movement than I could have anticipated. There are obviously some basic formula's one would adopt when treating a room, but my experiences here are there is just so much more that is very much room dependant. And taking the time to flesh these things out is really the only answer to getting the room where you'd like it to be acoustically. This is such a subjective hobby and very much personal to one's tastes. Yes I'm sure the rack and the equipment are also contributors in all of this. But again, here I've tried to do the best I can in relation to my budget and actually listening to many racks before I decided on the solid tech rack in my system with my equipment. In conclusion I'm just left thinking this. Sometimes the more you know the more you realise you don't know.🎧🙂👍
Yeah, it really isn't that simple, unfortunately. Each room presents different problems in relation to acoustic treatment. Generally larger rooms need less treatment due to their size and other smaller rooms like mine need more attention to get a relatively flat response but keep enough liveliness in the room so that you're not listening in a dead room. I still have an 80 hz bump in the room, which I'll never get rid of due to the rooms size. I guess it's really all about compromises like everything is in relation to acoustic treatment in a room.👍🎧
Great video share, Shane! All very clear and well presented. I seem to recall that your professional background was as an acoustics sound engineer. Is that correct or remotely close? 😂 Before I morphed into becoming a patent attorney, I was a research scientist and university professor in Illinois (UIUC, Loyola at Chicago, and IIT, also in Chicago). So I’m a geek by nature. Lol. Regarding your listening room, are the corner interfaces all 90-degree relationships? Room dimensions? When you say frequency improvements by modifying the wall and corner treatments, can you elaborate about that in greater detail with numbers, percentages, or some other measure of frequency improvements that folks can appreciate? My last question is what contribution does your audio equipment and rack make to room acoustics. I understand the Wilson’s need to be exposed to the listening environment but wonder whether the other components might contribute their own reflective/absorptive characteristics that might be otherwise tamed.
GM ☕️ How’s the cold 🤧..you sound a bit stuffed up… Room treatment is a must..not required to the point of killing the room . I still have my ASCtube traps …😆
Hi Carmine, ARC traps are very good 👍 I'm definitely getting better now, mate. Thanks for asking.🙏 Yeah, the changes I've made, which essentially have just been moving some stuff around in the room have made a really nice improvement in the room.🙂👍🎧
I also find diffusion on the front wall to work well.
Hi Dan, let me go through your questions one by one.
Yes my background was in sound engineering, as a tracking, mastering and live sound engineer.
All of the corners in my listening room are at a 90° aspect to each other.
The RT response in my room was improved by a not inconsiderable 4 Ms with the latest changes I've made.
Most of this would have been because I closed the curtains. My listening position has me sitting with a window directly behind me. I have treated that area in the past, but doing what I've done in the room this time and closing the curtains has improved things quite a bit.
It's a little difficult to talk in just numbers Dan as you would imagine, but I have always had an 80Hz problem in this room and still do to a certain extent, but I have improved the room audibly with the changes I've made in this and the corresponding sucked out at 160 Hz.
I've got other things in the pipeline that I'll be talking about on the channel soon.
This I'm hoping will improve things even further. But I guess only time will answer that question.
This reshuffling and these small changes have made a much bigger movement than I could have anticipated.
There are obviously some basic formula's one would adopt when treating a room, but my experiences here are there is just so much more that is very much room dependant. And taking the time to flesh these things out is really the only answer to getting the room where you'd like it to be acoustically.
This is such a subjective hobby and very much personal to one's tastes.
Yes I'm sure the rack and the equipment are also contributors in all of this.
But again, here I've tried to do the best I can in relation to my budget and actually listening to many racks before I decided on the solid tech rack in my system with my equipment.
In conclusion I'm just left thinking this.
Sometimes the more you know the more you realise you don't know.🎧🙂👍
You should take a look at acoustic Grove system from Japan. Very effective, less intrusive and fewer panels required.
Yeah, it really isn't that simple, unfortunately. Each room presents different problems in relation to acoustic treatment. Generally larger rooms need less treatment due to their size and other smaller rooms like mine need more attention to get a relatively flat response but keep enough liveliness in the room so that you're not listening in a dead room.
I still have an 80 hz bump in the room, which I'll never get rid of due to the rooms size. I guess it's really all about compromises like everything is in relation to acoustic treatment in a room.👍🎧
Great video share, Shane! All very clear and well presented. I seem to recall that your professional background was as an acoustics sound engineer. Is that correct or remotely close? 😂 Before I morphed into becoming a patent attorney, I was a research scientist and university professor in Illinois (UIUC, Loyola at Chicago, and IIT, also in Chicago). So I’m a geek by nature. Lol. Regarding your listening room, are the corner interfaces all 90-degree relationships? Room dimensions? When you say frequency improvements by modifying the wall and corner treatments, can you elaborate about that in greater detail with numbers, percentages, or some other measure of frequency improvements that folks can appreciate? My last question is what contribution does your audio equipment and rack make to room acoustics. I understand the Wilson’s need to be exposed to the listening environment but wonder whether the other components might contribute their own reflective/absorptive characteristics that might be otherwise tamed.
GM ☕️
How’s the cold 🤧..you sound a bit stuffed up…
Room treatment is a must..not required to the point of killing the room .
I still have my ASCtube traps …😆
Hi Carmine, ARC traps are very good 👍
I'm definitely getting better now, mate.
Thanks for asking.🙏
Yeah, the changes I've made, which essentially have just been moving some stuff around in the room have made a really nice improvement in the room.🙂👍🎧
@@shanestephenson8423 sometimes a subtle touch is what’s needed.
@@carminedesanto6746 true 👍
What is the size of your room?
LWH
@troysapp9668 Hi, my room dimensions are 4.8 m wide, 3.8m deep, and 2.6m high. 👍