Simulation of Complex Rooms

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The ELAC 516 used in the simulation. It's a just typical tower speaker I picked from the CARA library.
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Here are the rooms and speaker with listener layouts. Note that all CARA sims are seen and heard from the point of the listener, not the entire room.

Room with no walls
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Room with parallel glass walls.
glass walls.png


Room with sloped out glass walls and acoustic treatment.

tilted walls.png
 
I have been away from audio for a couple of decades, and I am amazed at the current state of the art, exemplified by this simulation!
I have so much catching up to do...
Of course I am also happy to learn that my angled walls help to address an otherwise catastrophic listening room.

Now on to the task of designing corner-horns for a room without traditional orthogonal corners...
 
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The non parallel walls helps the acoustics a lot, even when you are taking about a glass box. Getting absorption in there to catch the kill those reflections is just about as important. A normal room would have that built in, but with highly reflective walls of glass, you gotta do something.