GoodSoundClub - Romy the Cat's Audio Site

In the Forum: Audio Discussions
In the Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat?

Post Subject: Converting acoustic problems into acoustic paybacks.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/12/2016

Anthony, the Helmholtz Resonators for 50Hz are huge and will work ONLY for a very narrow location, presumably the listening position. This is not an ultimate objective and it is not about EQ the response at the sweat spot but rather to normalize the response in the whole room. You see, the horn loading topology and using SET amplification with no feedback implies high amp’s output impedance and high microphone sensitivity of the speakers. The acoustic room feedback is very active with such topology and you want to load the acoustic feedback evenly, not only to create flat response at your listening position. This and many other reasons makes me to discard the room treatment as active problem correction ceremony but rather embrace the approach when an acoustic system is designed using the room aberrations and the initial input parameters. For sure I deal with open walls and the rest of the typical acoustic problem but I try do not fight the room but rather embrace the room problems into my design idea, converting the problem into benefits.

Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site