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Those panels will only help with first reflections, mainly helping with treble and as you say Gordon totally non symmetrical.
The glass on the other side will do the opposite.
I would have thought bass traps would be needed more with those speakers in that size room?
True, the room and its acoustics are not symmetrical regarding the first reflection points. Luckily this is not a problem at normal to moderate listening levels as the JBLs being designed as mid-field monitors are more directional than boxes usually due to large front baffle and the acoustic lenses at the horns, also the tweeters are positioned in the inner edges to eliminate the early reflections.
The house is wooden and there are open walls to the kitchen and the hall, so despite of the small size of the room it could still take bigger speakers in terms of energy transfer, more critical issue would be the sound integration as the listening distance is only about 3 metres and this might occur etc with the larger horn designs e.g. Acapella or avantgarde speakers. in addition of the visible ones, behind the curtains and sofa etc there are significant number of sound absorbing panels hidden. Also there are no opposite walls left bare as that might result to the issues with the echo/noise and the room has pretty much stuff there balancing it nicely. Naturally the current end result is not pinpoint accurate, but serves the purpose pretty well as it measures pretty good and haven't heard any complaints from visitors :D
I have few different sound absorbing and diffusing panels already at storage and have already made some plans to improve the room still a bit based on some guides and my experience of the earlier listening rooms I have had. Most likely will do some minor adjustments still to the room e.g. for the ceiling to kill the reflections and make the bit better. Oh yes, and have been planning to get new bit bigger and thicker woolen carpet also.. :D
Are the JBL's designed to be used at floor level? I would image that you would have no problems with imaging and high frequencies in that room. Too much acoustic absorption can kill the sound so it is a happy balance.
I think bass is a bigger problem to control and get right, not sure how much your JBL kick out?
I have a friend who has taken room acoustics to the extreme where he has built two rooms entirely from scratch in an industrial unit and incorporated an unbelievable amount of acoustic panelling and enormous bass traps. All of the acoustic material is constructed from rock wool battens. He uses KEF Blades driven to the max and the sound is stunning especially with some extreme recordings. Amazing how the bass is controlled so well which allows you to hear perfect imaging and detail in the recording you would never know was there.
Very different from my own system which is a little more organic.:)
JBLs kick out pretty much bass and also go pretty low but the nature of the sound is still tight, punchy and controlled. Especially for being a reflex enclosure. As stated earlier the room could cope with even bigger speakers regarding that area. I also prefer organic and natural presentation over clinical and clean "hifi" sound and JBLs suite that preference really well.
Yesterday visited a local friend who has impressive system with Oracle Paris TT, Burmeister cd player, ASR amp and Penaudio Sinfonia loudspeakers. He listens mostly classical and orchestral music, and the system excels with that. The presentation of this system is neutral and clean with tons of resolution. Little bass heavy thou especially with pop and rock music. I'm still bit undecided do I actually like it or not but despite well spent afternoon with friends interested of the audio and music.. :cool:
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For the past few months I've been making myself familiar with the Audio Note sound as a final "test" being a loaner OTO SE driving my updated AN-J speakers with AN-L speaker cables. Well in short, I understand the pros for the system and being fed with quality source it actually does some things that my McIntosh/JBL system cannot perhaps do so well. There certain openness and musical coherence that my main rig cannot perform so well being more ..hmm.. neutral and monitor like. That being said my McIntosh/JBL system still is superior in many ways and also more balanced system as a whole. It might be that in my room should actually be looking AN-E's as despite the moderate size the wooden house and the acoustics do not supper smaller speaker in a manner that it might be needed.
Well, still like the Audio Note sound a lot but at the moment leaving that a side for a while returning the OTO SE loaner to its legimite owner :) Other news is that I've recently bought back the Audio Zone AMP-1 that used four years ago with my Altec horns and NS-1000 speakers. Really lovely minimalistic amp I've should have never sold.
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If interested of this one please check some online reviews available at web. Have just made some initial listening how it behaves with JBLs and have very positive feeling about this.. :)
Different type of chillin.. :)
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Nice Mika, she looks like a model from a 70s broschure of good HiFi! :)
And, i see you have let a pair of NS-1000Ms in the house too. Are there any differences from the domestic version you had before?
Atb Mike
Thanks Mike! ;)
This is my 4th pair of the M-variants during a long period of time, so not exactly anything new. Its been a while since the domestic ones were here, so direct comparison is not easy. I did that back in the days and felt that domestic ones were little more open and coherent sounding, which might have also been my imagination..
Not much happening here. New woolen carpet and few bonsai trees in da house but nothing really happening in terms of equipment, which is kind of a nice situation. Have been concentrating more to bike trips, swimming and saunas during my four week summer holiday. Also visited few festivals and live gigs during the summer.
Few smartphone pics as the battery of my DSLR was dead :)
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During the hot summer season used mostly the wee Audiozone AMP-1 chipamp but have now returned to the old reliable Mcintosh again as autumn nights are getting colder and extra heating is not that bad thing anymore. Have lately used both of my speakers and like them both really a lot, so feeling lucky there is no need for decision between them. Now listening Kamasi Washington's The Epic and the system really sings..
The pics may no be your usual stratospheric quality but more than good enough! :)
I have objections though. both the Mac and Mic(ro) deserve a better spot! ;) Im pretty sure you had a proper stand previously?