On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 04:15:22PM +0100, david monacchi wrote: > > > Dear all, > > we're planning to build in Pesaro-Italy a small ambisonic studio with 13 > loudspeakers (full 3D - 4@-45°, 4@0°, 4@+45°, 1@90°).. We're now in the > process of moving walls, treating acoustically the room, etc.. The room will > be 5.00 x 4.60 x 3.20h and we are planning to treat it to be as more 'dead' > as possible.. > > In order to have a 'pleasant' space, we're thinking to put a wodden floor > which, to a certain degree, will also help absorbing some low frequencies.. > > My question is: > considering that the room will be semi-anechoic, is the reflection from the > wodden floor really compromizing for the correct soundfied reconstruction? > Are there studies that you know with experimental data, or simply your direct > experience on this?
A thick carpet won't hurt... If the room is supposed to be semi-anechoic then a specular reflection from a shiny wooden floor isn't going to help. With just 2 more speakers (4 + 6 + 4 + 1) you would not only have better first order but also the option to reproduce in full 2nd order - assuming the right decoder. Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
