That’s a very nice comment thank you. In a former life I actually taught advanced research designs to faculty. Much of what I did was learn new ways of researching complex topics using advanced statistical methods and then translate them into a kind of crash course for professors.
I only have surround in the back, one is in a corner, and I have them higher than the listening position. My room is just terribly planned out by who built the house. But with a little treatment and the processing on my Yamaha A4A it all works pretty well.
I’m not a home theatre guy, I’m an old school, 2 channel man. My hi-fi has to fight for its right to be in our family lounge which is far from ideal. 19 feet long. 17 feet wide, 8 feet tall. The room is open plan and P-shaped with the leg of the P being a 13 feet by 9 feet kitchen. 1 of the long walls in the lounge is all glass from above 3 feet. The walls are plasterboard. The ceiling is concrete. The floor is wood clad concrete. My speakers are 9.5 feet apart, 34 inches from the wall behind them and toed in slightly. My listening position is 11.5 feet from my speakers. Other than the soft furnishings, sofas, curtains, cushions, rugs Etc there is no room treatment. The aesthetics committee, AKA the wife prohibits that. I don’t employ any form of Eq, DSP or room correction software. As I said, I’m very much old school. Oh, there is also a huge RS J running the length of the room, protruding about 9 inches from the ceiling and about 12 inches wide. I’m a music lover, whilst my wife is a tv addict. This means that for a harmonious marriage compromises have to be made. Let me rephrase that, for a harmonious marriage, I have to make compromises. It’s not my preferred methodology, but from time to time I have too resort to headphones as my listening media. I’ve 3 pairs of headphones ranging from an entry level pair costing me €450 to a pair of pro master reference headphones costing me north of €3000! By all accounts those pro master reference headphones are just about as linear/neutral as you can get. Yet, the performance of my hi-fi in my far from ideal room easily matches, if not out performs the performance of those headphones. Now, according to measurements made by Stereophile, my speakers have one of the most linear, on access and off access response of almost any speaker they’ve measured and maybe this is a major contributory factor to my hi-fit’s performance. The question begs:- is that despite the room, or, because of the room. I tend to lean toward the latter. I believe our auditory system has evolved to differentiate between direct and indirect sound. Easily being able to distinguish the hi-fi from the room. I don’t suffer from room anxiety. All comments welcomed. Interestingly enough, I left a very similar comment after watching one of John Darko’s videos. That comment was deleted PDQ. I think that speaks volumes.
@@tazoriginal hi Taz. Totally different speakers. Kef makes great speakers and their Q and R series are good for the money. But the T series is a problem solver product. It’s a low profile speaker and it’s output is compromised. So to save room it’s great. However the performance isn’t as good as the full sized products. A Kef In-wall or Q/R series is going to be better. The Arendal are better than the T series but more expensive and substantially larger. A Q550 would be more comparable to the Arendal. Arendal is a great value.
Am I actually loosing much by not having back surrounds? Due to my room I cant place my sofa far away from my back wall (only about 2 ft). Did alread treat my back wall with absorbers to remedy the negative effects but back surrounds are not viable.
Well the way I look at it, I didn't build a house with a dedicated home theater, I built a theater with a dedicated living space;-) Even so, it still doesn't have perfect ratios.
It’s fairly rare that anyone can design the theater space down to the stud placement with infinite flexibility. Typically we are stuck dealing with what we have.
Thanks for the video. It would be nice if he made a video of his room and that people could perfectly see the cave effect of it with a 1 and a half second RT60 that comments. And that the listening point is quite close. Imagine having it further away, where in a simple mobile recording you can perfectly hear the difference between a closer and more distant listening point. Something that later when seeing the ETC with REW is seen perfectly. written with translator Greetings
I am not sure I fully understand what you are getting at. This was a video to share what’s possible. I’ve done videos in my family room. You want to see that specially?
My wife edited it and posted it while I was at a press event and I didn’t have the ability to check. The sound needed to be normalized. I don’t know what happened exactly but I will start paying more attention to this. I do apologize.
