VolvoHeretic
Well-Known Member
If you just turn it up, you can't here the crappy room.
Any chance we could get pics? And I'm interested in hearing about the "masking" technique with the piano. I have a hot water heater in the corner right behind and to the side of my R channel speaker that I might need to consider doing that to.
The "attack wall" is pictured here:
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showpost.php?p=4900882&postcount=41
The "mask" is simply an 11" trap interposed between the direct path of the right speaker's output and the nearest side of the piano.
In all honesty, you are not really attacking the wall, but re-shaping the forward dispersion pattern of the speaker. Attacking the wall would mean exactly that - treating the actual front wall with reflection reduction(or elimination if you could) treatments. If you are feeding full range information to those speakers, there is still some strong interaction in the bass frequencies with the front wall - I don't see anything behind the speaker that can control any reflections at those frequencies.
I would image that a floor "bounce" or reflection would still be present, and ceiling reflections to a lesser degree as you have only controlled the horizontal reflections, but not really the vertical ones.
In all honesty, you are not really attacking the wall, but re-shaping the forward dispersion pattern of the speaker. Attacking the wall would mean exactly that - treating the actual front wall with reflection reduction(or elimination if you could) treatments. If you are feeding full range information to those speakers, there is still some strong interaction in the bass frequencies with the front wall - I don't see anything behind the speaker that can control any reflections at those frequencies.
I would imag[in]e that a floor "bounce" or reflection would still be present, and ceiling reflections to a lesser degree as you have only controlled the horizontal reflections, but not really the vertical ones.