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Title: Impact of passive room treatment and speaker positioning
Post by: Bingenito on 31 Dec 2021, 02:51 pm
After careful speaker placement and listening along with advice from Mike at GIK on what passive treatments to implement you can see the results. The test tone is 20-200hz and I also shot 20-20khz which looks very similar. There is zero active correction and measurements are taken from my center seat at ear height using REW, 11.5 ft away from the speaker baffles.

The room being oriented so that I have over 18ft wide open behind my head or in this case the Mic made a material difference.

I no longer have the REW shots from when I started but I can tell you that it was a rollercoaster of peaks and suck outs. So while above isnt ruler flat… I will take it and am very pleased with the GIK products and advice.


(https://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=234574)

(https://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=234573)
Title: Re: Impact of passive room treatment and speaker positioning
Post by: DannyBadorine on 31 Dec 2021, 04:08 pm
Room treatment is always a better option compared to active DSP.  I'm glad you're getting good results.
Title: Re: Impact of passive room treatment and speaker positioning
Post by: JWL.GIK on 31 Dec 2021, 04:45 pm
Awesome job!

Yes you are in great hands with Mike. :-)
Title: Re: Impact of passive room treatment and speaker positioning
Post by: Bingenito on 31 Dec 2021, 05:00 pm
Yes Mike is great! Also super responsive.

In about 6 weeks or so we will test the impact of open baffle speakers in this room against the baseline curve. Should be an interesting experiment.
Title: Re: Impact of passive room treatment and speaker positioning
Post by: RonP on 31 Dec 2021, 05:16 pm
Yes Mike is great! Also super responsive.


+1
Title: Re: Impact of passive room treatment and speaker positioning
Post by: jmpsmash on 31 Dec 2021, 07:14 pm
What's the size of the room?

How does the FR look like if you set each vertical division to be 5dB instead of 20dB?
Title: Re: Impact of passive room treatment and speaker positioning
Post by: Bingenito on 31 Dec 2021, 09:53 pm
The room is 18x30x8.5

If I narrow the DB is range is +/- around 5db except for the remaining room modes. That is about as close as I expect to get until I move to open baffle which I assume will pressurize the room less. Not an expert in acoustic  :)
Title: Re: Impact of passive room treatment and speaker positioning
Post by: pompon on 1 Jan 2022, 06:20 pm
+-5dB is quite good but the more interesting graph is the waterfall.