Is it worth tghe effort and if yes where and how do you start
Is it worth tghe effort and if yes where and how do you start
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Not sure really I have a friend who is a audio designer and he once told me that 70% of the sound is acoustics and when I put deflector on speakers made a good difference to sound so just wondering is it worth adding stuff like absorbers and deflectors
To my ears the sound I have sounds really good so its kind of a open question I guess sorry if this seems confussed as I am not really sure about this
Loves anything from Pain of Salvation to Jeff Buckley to Django to Sarasate to Surinder Sandhu to Shawn Lane to Nick Drake to Rush to Beth Hart to Kate Bush to Rodrigo Y Gabriela to The Hellecasters to Dark Sanctury to Ben Harper to Karicus to Dream Theater to Zero Hour to Al DiMeola to Larry Carlton to Derek Trucks to Govt Mule to?
Humour: One of the few things worth taking seriously
I tried a piece of leather on the front of a set of speaker. It was not easy cutting out the holes, but it did sound better in a way. Not sure where you could get a piece of leather that size these days though.
Sending the Wife and Kids to bed is always a good start from a noise reduction point of view.
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I've built acoustic panels for my room - 4 in total; a large one between the speakers and three smaller ones at each first reflection point and behind my head. I was very pleased with the result - quite profound in fact. Vocals are better articulated, less 'splash' in general, stereo localisation is better defined and depth is improved. Tiny adjustments to tracking weight and bias are clearly audible and the room generally mimics a larger one.
I also use a foam surround to my tweeters and woofers and find this to be well worth the effort of construction; improved treble localisation and definition.
This one shows the foam on the baffles:
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Mark, have you seen this thread:
http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1017
You may find it interesting.
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No, I hadn't seen that thread but it is most interesting. The beneficial qualities are very well described and are very much what I was trying to say. I actually built mine myself as A/ I didn't want to spend a lot of money if they didn't work B/ I thought it would be fun C/ I wanted custom sizes D/ I wanted them to blend in a bit and not clash with the pictures I already had.
I made mine very much in the way that Paul describes in the thread you linked too - except I used a heavier cotton fabric to cover them and they have a perforated hardboard back - they stand approximately 10mm from the wall on soft spacers.
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This is something I must address in my own room I think!
I bet i get moaned at though.
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This is something most people should address!
Most of my mates 'listening rooms' do not have remotely enough soft/absording furnishing to work, let alone do anything remotely to address the bass issues.
Thick underlay, thick carpet, leather kiss of death settees?, bare walls, lots of glazed pictures/paintings - sound familiar?.
I had to move my gear from a 22x14ft lounge into the old dining room, maybe 14x12ft.
A bit of study, a bit of crafty stuff, well actually a s--tload of both,
my system sounds way better than it ever did in the big room