BEAR wrote:
Gary Eickmeier wrote:

Possibly good, but I would have to see the speaker designs. Easiest
way to visualize the result of driver positioning is to make an image
model drawing. This is just a plan view of the speakers and their
reflected images in the walls. You can then sort of see the strengths
of the various real and virtual speakers contributions to the model,
based on their radiation patterns.


Ummm... that was like 1973...

In 1975-6 I did this: http://www.bearlabs.com/NEXT/CVSR.html

Got rid of the reflecting variable... ;_)

Bear,

That would be very bad sound, placing any speaker all the way into the
corner. Yes, you got "rid" of the reflecting variable, but that is just
the problem. Image Model Theory says that the reproduction is a MODEL of
the real thing, not a portal into another acoustic. By placing the
speakers out into the room, you are modeling the deep, wide, huge
original soundstage and sound patterns. By placing speakers in the
corners, ALL of the recorded sound is made to come from just two ****
holes in the snow. The space that is in the recording is compressed and
flattened. Can you not hear those effects???

Gary Eickmeier