Posted by Earl Geddes [ 69.209.137.72 ] on January 08, 2005 at 14:44:22:

In Reply to: Re: Trying to understand bass "quality".... posted by Tomservo on January 08, 2005 at 14:14:14:

At Honda they tested the sound quality of variuos cars by having listeners listen to sounds and rate the sound while looking at a picture of the car. The correlation tracked the picture NOT the actual sound. Perception is a very dangerous thing in audio. Thats why I sepend so much effect on good blind subjective tests - the only way to get to the truth.

I had a meeting at CES with a group of Acoustic consultants that get together know as the "Acoustics Guild". Most of us do Home Theaters. The overwhelming preference was for three or four subwoofers. From a "solutions" standpoint, we have all found this to work. I use four smaller subwoofers rather than one big one, so placement is not such a big deal.

But then again, even a lot of woofers won't cure a room with insufficient LF damping - got to get those modes damped down first! Then you can start to talk about "bass quality".

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