Quote Originally Posted by Clive View Post
I've tried adding absorbing materials but I prefer the live sound of the room, I think it's the OB reflections that give such a realistic experience, too much absorption make them sound like box speaker, which is ok, but not the point.

There is a big (8ft x 4ft) green baize covered notice board opposite the speakers, this seems to work well, not that the colour will make any difference. I've found that the area behind the speakers needs to be very live. Along one side of the room I have all my CDs and the records go half the length of the room. I feel I have the LEDE right, certainly it's critical to get right, the most important are with OBs being what's behind them and their distance from the rear wall.


If you gently tone down any reflections at all, do it at the listening position rather than the speaker end, unless the sound takes off there. This is more like sitting in an audience position at a venue and sounds more natural than damping out the speaker end of the room only.

The big dem room at KJ had the wall behind the speakers almost totally deadened and the only speakers which really benefitted from this are the ML Electrostatic hybrids, which sounded unusually good there. Everything else sounded a bit muted to me..