After listening to how the room affects the audio in this video I now think that it really may be ideal for listening to audio. It's a shame I don't have one to try out 😎
Can silence actually drive you crazy?
Can silence actually drive you crazy?
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Actually the best acoustic for audio on earth is snow. Slightly cold though
have always wanted to put in a deer 🙂
Cheers / Chris
Actually the best acoustic for audio on earth is snow. Slightly cold though
have always wanted to put in a deer 🙂
Cheers / Chris
Been in one. Weird. They are very disorienting. Actually, if you have heard music outside in big spaces with no bandshell, and out in the snow ( I have) it is a very bad environment. Lifeless.
Please read Floyd Pool.
Please read Floyd Pool.
Hello, What I have found that seems to work really well is to have one half of the room anechoic and one half reverberant.
Then put the speakers in the anechoic half.
This eliminates early reflections which distract from the original sound.
The reverberant half add the fulness back to the sound.
I once tended to remove everything that was not needed to make sound
now it seems like I'm on the opposite path, the more the merrier
joke aside, they say anechoic chambers are horrible for playing music
now it seems like I'm on the opposite path, the more the merrier
joke aside, they say anechoic chambers are horrible for playing music
Lede room design approaches have been discredited in some quarters, although to some extent that is what I tried to do in my rooms.
I worked for a large audio company and had regular access and need of the anechoic chamber for acoustical testing. Personally I cannot imagine a much worse listening environment.. Dead, lifeless, and irritating is how I would describe it.
I worked for a large audio company and had regular access and need of the anechoic chamber for acoustical testing. Personally I cannot imagine a much worse listening environment.. Dead, lifeless, and irritating is how I would describe it.
I fully agree with you, Kevin. The strange enviroment in an anechoic chamber must be tried to be believed. Though, a funny experience, I think 😀
Karsten
I agree that anechoic is not in the realm of good listening characteristics. I worked in an anechoic room many years ago in the auto industry. It is an indispensable tool for isolating sounds from the reverberant field but no way I'd want my listening room to sound like that.
I don't want my room to sound like anything. I want to reproduce the sound field of the recording.
Now, I'll be the first to point out that you can't reproduce a tensor sound field with two point sources - so for the moment we need to "fake" some ambience.
But I do believe that, as a philosophy, starting from anechoic and working up from there is the correct path.
Now, as those who've been in an anechoic chamber will attest, the average listening room is light years away from there.
Why do you need to "fake" ambience? Sound recordings have plenty of it, especially if they're played back at realistic sound levels - of course, the system has to be in good shape for the ambience cues to be correctly reproduced ... otherwise the recordings can sound flat ...
With conventional stereo in an anechoic chamber we'll have no sound from the rear.
It has been reported (by others) that, even with a properly recorded live event, this absence is audible.
The proposed solution is to add some reverberant surfaces behind the listener (or rear channels) - which is where we get the dead end/live end paradigm.
I've not tried this myself starting from an anechoic chamber - (I don't get around much anymore!)
Its interesting,
That in the "real" world the environment has reverberation and echo. As soon as you remove it you have "incomplete sound" ie the venue recording is only half of the information if its the performance. Or the whole information in the wrong direction if its the environment. Or the performance with added information from the room.
I liked the link in post 1#
Whats that sound again..🙂..I can hear my heart beat..I can hear...something.
What was the other saying.."alien" In space no one can hear you scream..except perhaps yourself?
Regards
M. Gregg
That in the "real" world the environment has reverberation and echo. As soon as you remove it you have "incomplete sound" ie the venue recording is only half of the information if its the performance. Or the whole information in the wrong direction if its the environment. Or the performance with added information from the room.
I liked the link in post 1#
Whats that sound again..🙂..I can hear my heart beat..I can hear...something.
What was the other saying.."alien" In space no one can hear you scream..except perhaps yourself?
Regards
M. Gregg
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Isn 't listening with headphones and anechoic experience? I'm not ready to throw mine away...Now if a recording was made in an anechoic environment, it might be worse.
I think that everyone who hadn't listened to waveguide/horn speakers really should try them out ASAP. The way wavguide/horn speakers control early reflections and direct the wave front gives you a very similar experience without having to have a lot of room treatment.
"Everyone says" a lot about an anechoic chamber, like it will drive you mad. I am disinclined to believe "everyone" unless they have some results to back it up. In my personal experience I have found that the more treatment the room has, the better. Everything improves (eg. dynamics, soundstage, imaging, transient response, detail, etc.). I have not been in an anechoic chamber. If given the opportunity, I would test if what I have found through my experience so far continues all the way to it's most extreme conclusion.
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