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A New Way to Think About Room Acoustics

I often have people ask me some very basic overall questions about the acoustical design of a room, such as: how much will it cost, what will it look like, how much better is it going to sound? All of these are important questions and sometimes it's difficult to give someone an answer that's easily understood.

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Tech Article: Twenty Questions Toward a Correct Home Theater Room
by Jeff Hedback — last modified December 09, 2007 09:17
Twenty Questions Toward a Correct Home Theater Room
Let’s get right to it. You love audio, are passionate about your system and are always searching for a better experience, a more accurate response. You’ve heard the term “room correction”. You’ve heard speakers in various rooms, you are aware of acoustical treatments and active room correction systems (ARC). You know that your dedicated audio system is not in a purpose built room. You would like to make the room as “correct” as possible; however you have no clear idea what approach is best for your room. This article explores the 20 questions you should ask yourself towards building a great room along with feedback from leading industry experts within their own respected disciplines on this topic.

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Editorial: Building Great Bass Response In Your Home Theater
by Jeff Hedback — last modified May 22, 2007 08:31
Building Great Bass Response In Your Home Theater
If you are searching for the utmost listening experience in your room with your system it is time you consider how your space is constructed. It is the purpose of this article to show you how the construction relates to your audio experience. There is an inverse relation between sound isolation (STC) and sound absorption (NRC). The greater the isolation of a surface the more sound energy is going to remain in that space. This applies directly below 200 Hz where the resonance of room modes is a primary factor of your systems character. It becomes compounded when you add multiple sound sources with low frequency information…you got it, your room.

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Editorial: Early Reflections in Home Theaters: A Different Perspective
by Jeff Szymanski — last modified April 11, 2007 06:18
Early Reflections in Home Theaters: A Different Perspective
Early reflections may or may not be major problems in home theaters. Addressing them through the use of heavy absorption should be pursued with caution. I believe the issue of early reflections and their relative merits (or lack thereof) in any home theater should never be ignored. This article opens a dialog on how to best deal with them and how they differ from large listening spaces.

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Tech Article: Active Room Correction: A Primer to Audyssey MultEQ Pro
by Patrick Hart — last modified February 26, 2007 03:54
Active Room Correction: A Primer to Audyssey MultEQ Pro
Audyssey's Sound Equalizer is the company's first branded, flagship statement product. In working with the MultEQ Pro software over the last couple of months it has become apparent to this author that the ASE's power and flexibility can be best exploited, as far as overall system sound quality and balance are concerned, if careful attention is first paid to speaker selection, placement, and positioning. Often, passive room treatments, themselves carefully selected and placed are also recommended.

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Tech Article: HAA Level I Certification Training Course Overview
by Ken Stein — last modified February 26, 2007 04:04
HAA Level I Certification Training Course Overview
This article is about HAA certification training and it also contains some great information on home acoustics from the course which I have included in this article. You may find that even a few tidbits of information can make drastic sonic improvements to your system.

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Tech Article: A New Way to Think About Room Acoustics
by Richard Rives Bird — last modified February 26, 2007 04:43
A New Way to Think About Room Acoustics
I often have people ask me some very basic overall questions about the acoustical design of a room, such as: how much will it cost, what will it look like, how much better is it going to sound? All of these are important questions and sometimes it's difficult to give someone an answer that's easily understood.

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Tech Article: Designing a Listening Room - Rives Audio
by Richard Rives Bird — last modified June 28, 2005 20:00
Designing a Listening Room - Rives Audio
This article should provide a good understanding of what can be expected in terms of the process of designing a listening room. There are five phases to most design projects. Some of the phases may overlap slightly on occasion, but ideally each will have a clear beginning and ending point.

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Tech Article: Human Hearing - Reprise Part 4
by Mark Sanfilipo — last modified February 26, 2007 04:50
That it has evolved into an extremely sophisticated psychophysiological function should come as no surprise when one considers that in nature, the perceptor possessing the superior hearing mechanism/process is rewarded with survival. It's this same formidable sophistication, forged over time in the harsh crucible of simple survival that allows us now to experience the sublime joys of music - live or reproduced.

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Tech Article: Human Hearing - Distortion Audibility Part 3
by Mark Sanfilipo — last modified February 26, 2007 04:53
Human Hearing - Distortion Audibility Part 3
Distortion. Present in every electro-mechanical-acoustical transducer ever built, yet infrequently does one find information (let alone useful information) that describe the type and degree of distortion presented by the transducer. Head out on the Internet and corral a good sized collection of loudspeaker driver spec sheets and you'll find that not many will offer much guidance where it comes to sizing up candidates for your next loudspeaker system design. That is, if you include distortion figures amongst the criteria used in rendering your component purchase decisions. What to do?

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Tech Article: Human Hearing - Phase Distortion Audibility Part 2
by Mark Sanfilipo — last modified February 26, 2007 04:59
Human Hearing - Phase Distortion Audibility Part 2
Given all the foregoing research presented in various academic, scientific & industry journals, as well as other media, variously indicating the audibility of phase distortion, there remains no valid doubts regarding the existence of phase distortion.

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Tech Article: Human Hearing: Amplitude Sensitivity Part 1 — by Mark Sanfilipo — last modified February 26, 2007 05:02
Tech Article: A Guide to Sound Isolation and Noise Control — by Richard Rives Bird — last modified May 09, 2007 11:34
Tech Article: Room Acoustics: Isolation & Noise Control — by Patrick Hart — last modified January 24, 2005 19:00
Tech Article: Audyssey Labs' MultEQ — by Patrick Hart — last modified December 28, 2004 19:00
Tech Article: The Perfect Room? — by Clint DeBoer — last modified December 05, 2004 19:00
Tech Article: Room Acoustics: Acoustic Treatments — by Patrick Hart — last modified October 24, 2004 20:00
Tech Article: Acoustics at Trade Shows — by Clint DeBoer — last modified October 19, 2004 20:00
Tech Article: Acoustics 101 Course by John Dahl of THX — by Patrick Hart — last modified October 03, 2004 20:00
Tech Article: High Performance Home Theater Calibration — by Patrick Hart — last modified March 06, 2007 15:42
Tech Article: Helmholtz Resonant Absorber — by Adam P. Salisbury — last modified August 30, 2004 20:00
Tech Article: Calculating Room Modes with ModeCalc — by Ethan Winer — last modified March 06, 2007 17:14
Tech Article: Acoustics Facts and Fiction — by Ethan Winer — last modified May 22, 2008 20:48
Tech Article: Physics Tutorial 2: The Physics of Hearing — by Mike Duda — last modified August 29, 2004 20:00
Tech Article: Rooms Without Boundaries: Using RPG Diffusors — by Jeff Madison — last modified August 24, 2004 20:00
Tech Article: Bass Traps - Not Just for Fisherman! — by Ethan Winer — last modified August 24, 2004 20:00
Tech Article: Getting the Right Acoustics for Your Listening Room — by Richard Rives Bird — last modified August 24, 2004 20:00
Tech Article: Room Modes and Dealing with Them — by Richard Rives Bird — last modified April 03, 2007 06:20
Tech Article: Introduction to Acoustics — by Richard Rives Bird — last modified August 24, 2004 20:00
Tech Article: Acoustical Measurements - What are They? — by Richard Rives Bird — last modified February 26, 2007 03:46

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