[Scott Dorsey]

Mike Heins wrote:
On 2007-03-14, Bill Ruys wrote:
Yup. If a genie jumped out of a lamp and offered me the worlds best studio
monitors -or- a great room, it would be no contest. I'd go for the room.
I'm stuck with the confinds of a small house and an even smaller studio.

Out of curiosity, is there any general agreement on what makes a great room?

No, but there IS general agreement on what makes a bad room.

Flutter echos make a bad room. Standing wave problems at low frequency
make a bad room. Slap echoes make a bad room. Rooms where the decay
time varies more than a few dB with frequency make bad rooms.

Now, back in the seventies there was a fad for making everything dead
as hell at high frequencies. I don't like that, but there are still
some people who did.

In the eighties the whole LEDE stuff came in, with a live section of the
room (using diffusion to avoid slap echoes) and a dead section of the
room (with absorption) where the speakers were placed. I like this,
but there are folks who don't.

There are varying tastes in room styles, but everyone can agree on the
room problems to avoid.
--scott


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