iquinn wrote on Fri, 12 September 2008 04:44 |
hi Darius/Thomas, looks like it's going to be a great room!
As you had something of a blank canvas, I'm just wondering, when you decided on the room dimensions, was your speaker choice or preferred listening volume a major/minor factor in choosing what dimensions would work best?
Or was it just a case of what would be the best use of that space?
thanks, S.
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Hi,
Speaker choice is not the most important factor as the room should work with basically any proper mastering speakers. Their placement is carefully studied, as well as the estimated optimal sub placement. But this part is actually the part that is most subject to "real life adjustments" as different speakers will sound best at slightly different places (depending on their dispersion pattern, their size etc). When it comes to SPL, every treated room has a "saturation" point where it's response will start to collapse. This is due to some of the acoustic treatment being able to manage efficiently only a certain amount of energy (treatment based on resistance to flow for example). In Darius's case, this saturation point is very high, and mastering at that kind of SPL would be unthinkable.
When it comes to dimensions, I believe they are important, and up to a limit, bigger is better. But I believe strongly that the behaviour of the space, so how you shape your room and manage dispersion of sound in it is critical. The whole geometry is really what is important - and usually rather complex to decide on. If you get that right, you can be pretty sure the room will be performant.
So a lot of things come into "best us of that space". But you could sum it up this way yes.
But there are no recipes though, each room is unique. Hope that answered your questions?