| Best Acoustic Tricks [message #86838] |
Thu, 21 December 2017 13:18  |
Aria
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There's a thread about the most common acoustics tricks that don't work and I've learned some interesting stuff from it. But what are the best tricks that DO work out there?
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| Re: Best Acoustic Tricks [message #87272 is a reply to message #86838] |
Sun, 25 February 2018 11:20  |
Silver
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Registered: December 2013
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The best example I can give concerns a type of room I have never seen before. (Trust me....this goes somewhere).
This concerns something you cannot see. Soundwaves. They do have a physical property though, in that they bounce off of things. Walls, car interiors, your eardrums......An acoustic sound is going to lose some of its quality when it has to bounce off of hard corners. In a room that is totally circular however, this isn't going to happen. The sound waves are not "bouncing" off of anything, rather they are "rolling" around the room.
So to assume soundwaves are not going to lose quality when they bump up against something like a sharp corner, is to assume that nothing bad will happen when it does something unnatural to its very nature. This is why the shape of a room is important. It will determine how you are going to "dampen" the corners in conjunction to where you have to put the speakers. And if you have 8 foot ceilings, 4 speakers that are 4 feet high and each one is in each corner? Half the battle is won right away. Just don't point them directly at each other, Tilt them a little off the 45 degree angle. That way the sound is rolling around the room instead of bouncing off of itself.
That would just be weird. 
The soundwaves coming out of your speakers........? You want your room to be as accomodating to them as possible if you want to experience the full sound that your system has to offer.
Credit.............
I got this advice when I was a teenager. He was an old timer in the Missouri Ozarks, in a house pretty far away from other people, who listened to nothing but Hawaiian music. Strange, was a good way to describe him. I have tried this advice out from time to time and it does seem to make a difference.
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| Re: Best Acoustic Tricks [message #87374 is a reply to message #87197] |
Mon, 05 March 2018 14:20 |
musicmarie
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Registered: March 2018
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| Pique wrote on Sun, 04 February 2018 16:24 | I read an article online which stated that the best way to get sound quality was to use rugs on the walls, and then another article said that was ineffective. There's just too much conflicting information online these days. I don't know what to believe anymore.
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They say that softer objects absorb sound faster, so I guess the range of different carpet types is what would affect peoples opinion on how effective it is.
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| Re: Best Acoustic Tricks [message #87405 is a reply to message #87272] |
Thu, 08 March 2018 15:18 |
EasyE
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| Silver wrote on Sun, 25 February 2018 11:20 | The best example I can give concerns a type of room I have never seen before. (Trust me....this goes somewhere).
This concerns something you cannot see. Soundwaves. They do have a physical property though, in that they bounce off of things. Walls, car interiors, your eardrums......An acoustic sound is going to lose some of its quality when it has to bounce off of hard corners. In a room that is totally circular however, this isn't going to happen. The sound waves are not "bouncing" off of anything, rather they are "rolling" around the room.
So to assume soundwaves are not going to lose quality when they bump up against something like a sharp corner, is to assume that nothing bad will happen when it does something unnatural to its very nature. This is why the shape of a room is important. It will determine how you are going to "dampen" the corners in conjunction to where you have to put the speakers. And if you have 8 foot ceilings, 4 speakers that are 4 feet high and each one is in each corner? Half the battle is won right away. Just don't point them directly at each other, Tilt them a little off the 45 degree angle. That way the sound is rolling around the room instead of bouncing off of itself.
That would just be weird.
The soundwaves coming out of your speakers........? You want your room to be as accomodating to them as possible if you want to experience the full sound that your system has to offer.
Credit.............
I got this advice when I was a teenager. He was an old timer in the Missouri Ozarks, in a house pretty far away from other people, who listened to nothing but Hawaiian music. Strange, was a good way to describe him. I have tried this advice out from time to time and it does seem to make a difference.
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Wow, Silver. That is such a thorough answer and even a newbie like myself was able to follow it. Thank you so much for writing all of that out in a way that's so easy to digest. I'll have to keep that in mind for the future.
Also, the old-timer you describe sounds absolutely amazing. I wish I could meet him. He sounds like a real treat.
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