Phil Leigh;582836 Wrote: > In recording studios and mastering suites where decisions are made about > how recordings will sound when we buy them, more money is spent on > acoustic treatments than is spent on the technical equipment. This is > because it is (generally) done once and HAS to be right. > > What we listen to at home is a "replay system" comprised of the > speakers and the room. The two act together. You cannot seperate them. > The behaviour of speakers is determined by the room they sit in. You > cannot just hear the speakers. The closest you can get is to use > nearfield monitors to try and isolate the direct sound from the room > reflected sound...but no mastering engineer would relay on those alone, > because they are atypical of the sound consumer will experience in > domestic environments. The room has a MASSIVE impact on the sound. Even > the best speakers in the world (?) are not immune from the interaction > with the room - it really is simple physics. Humans are > designed/evolved on purpose to recognise and respond to reflected > sounds and ambient spatial clues from those reflections. > > > Room correction (I prefer DRC as it gives benefits such as time/phase > alignment that bass traps etc don't even touch) makes the biggest > difference to making the music sound "good" for me - once you get past > some arbitary level of basic competency in the source/DAC/Amp/Speakers. > > I've heard a £120k system sound like cr*p in a bad (untreated) room and > a £1k system sound superb with £2.5k of DRC inserted in it. > > YMMV of course. Just giving an alternate perspective.
No argument here. As a matter of fact, I grew up with this bit of common wisdom. And, of course, I've experimented with speaker placement/room treatment like crazy. So I am aware of the very audible differences one can generate when messing with the room and the speaker placement. Where I tend to part ways with the commonly accepted wisdom is the bit that states that speaker placement etc. is where one stands to gain/lose the most. In my experience, I was always able to gain more improvements by carefully upgrading my audio chain, then I was able to get by rearranging my speaker positions. -- magiccarpetride ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82520
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