tomlinmgt
Lunatic Member
Let me share a recent experience I had and maybe there will be a nugget in there for your...because I see some similarities between your scenario and the one I recently created.
Back in the winter I set up a listening space in my son's vacant bedroom (he was off for his first year at college) just to see what it was like to try to build a critical listening rig in a small room (12x12) that is furnished like a typical bedroom. First thing I discovered was that even with typical furnishings (bed, dresser, shelves with knick knacks, full length curtain over window, carpeted floor), I did not have the room's acoustics under control and fidelity from anything and everything I tried in there suffered (I have multiple amps, preamps and speakers sitting around to mix and match... which I did). The bedroom's acoustic profile looks very similar to the picture you shared of your bedroom and living room. I put up a few absorption panels to kill early reflection locations and ensure I had no two opposing walls that were reflective. Hand clap test before treatments...flutter echo. Hand clap test after a few treatments...slight flutter echo. Hand clap test after treatments on walls...zero flutter echo. And the music sounded better...much better..regardless of if the speakers were DCM TF-600's, Dynaco A25's, JBL Studio 530's or Klipsch RB-5ii. You may have discovered there are particular speaker models that you don't like in your room(s) and others that you do....so yeah, it's possible for you to do nothing about the acoustic profile in your room(s) and be satisfied by something. But you also talk a lot about wanting to hear things accurately...as they're intended in the recording, and that it's important to you that you create the experience of listening to the music as if you're in a mastering lab. Well brother, you'll never get there if you don't don't do something to improve what I'm seeing going on acoustically in both of those rooms. So there's that. Ignore it at your peril.
Michael
Back in the winter I set up a listening space in my son's vacant bedroom (he was off for his first year at college) just to see what it was like to try to build a critical listening rig in a small room (12x12) that is furnished like a typical bedroom. First thing I discovered was that even with typical furnishings (bed, dresser, shelves with knick knacks, full length curtain over window, carpeted floor), I did not have the room's acoustics under control and fidelity from anything and everything I tried in there suffered (I have multiple amps, preamps and speakers sitting around to mix and match... which I did). The bedroom's acoustic profile looks very similar to the picture you shared of your bedroom and living room. I put up a few absorption panels to kill early reflection locations and ensure I had no two opposing walls that were reflective. Hand clap test before treatments...flutter echo. Hand clap test after a few treatments...slight flutter echo. Hand clap test after treatments on walls...zero flutter echo. And the music sounded better...much better..regardless of if the speakers were DCM TF-600's, Dynaco A25's, JBL Studio 530's or Klipsch RB-5ii. You may have discovered there are particular speaker models that you don't like in your room(s) and others that you do....so yeah, it's possible for you to do nothing about the acoustic profile in your room(s) and be satisfied by something. But you also talk a lot about wanting to hear things accurately...as they're intended in the recording, and that it's important to you that you create the experience of listening to the music as if you're in a mastering lab. Well brother, you'll never get there if you don't don't do something to improve what I'm seeing going on acoustically in both of those rooms. So there's that. Ignore it at your peril.
Michael
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