Author Topic: 30 inch monitors (Read 1870 times)

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #45 on:** December 24, 2007, 05:17:49 PM »

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Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
You could probably double your sound quality by installing the speakers on 2-3 feet long wall mountings which would separate the speakers from the wall and allow you to point them towards your listening position.

Small speaker size is not inherently a bad thing but it does make the speaker sensitive to wall reflections. Direct wall placement is especially problematic in bass region where it tends to make the sound boomy and harsh. Early reflections kill the high-mid region also.

With 3 feet or more clearance from any walls (or the ceiling/floor for that matter) will produce you a greatly improved sound using the same hardware as now. This 'tweak' is easy to try, costs nothing and almost guaranteed works.

Thanks for your input, I may try something to that end. It is difficult with such a small room. The speakers are already angled down toward my listening position and I used the 705's Audessy Equalizer Setup with some modifications. The bass is not as huge a problem since the fronts are routed through a powered sub, all 7 channels' crossovers set to 80hz, and the LFE is directed to another powered sub.

Stratocaster · « **Reply #46 on:** December 25, 2007, 08:27:31 AM »

yeesh... my idea of a sound setup is two 30 year old speakers plugged into an old stereo head unit and a cable going to the crappy soundcard on my comp... lol

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #47 on:** December 25, 2007, 12:56:35 PM »

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Originally posted by Stratocaster
yeesh... my idea of a sound setup is two 30 year old speakers plugged into an old stereo head unit and a cable going to the crappy soundcard on my comp... lol

LOL,
Does that mean your CPID wasn't taken from the guitar?

Stratocaster · « **Reply #48 on:** December 25, 2007, 05:14:27 PM »

I actually care about the sound quality coming from my instruments... when it comes to guns explosions and engine... how low can I go? is the question

MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #49 on:** December 25, 2007, 05:46:57 PM »

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Originally posted by DAVENRINO
Thanks for your input, I may try something to that end. It is difficult with such a small room. The speakers are already angled down toward my listening position and I used the 705's Audessy Equalizer Setup with some modifications. The bass is not as huge a problem since the fronts are routed through a powered sub, all 7 channels' crossovers set to 80hz, and the LFE is directed to another powered sub.

Cool I hope you do. The 80hz crossover does help a bit but the effect of the wall goes way beyond that, up to 200hz. The early reflections are especially harmful for sound quality and should be dampened. If you take a mirror and spot the places in the wall where you can see the speaker(s) through the mirror (edit: from your listening position, duh), those are the places to put some acoustic dampener in the room.

A book case full of books is excellent dampener. On lower positions a massive sofa will do fine. If you want to go hardcore, you can build a special resonator, dampener or reflector on the wall to the right spot.

The thing with speakers is that no matter how flat your response graph is, in a typical room the reflections mess that COMPLETELY up. So you're left with either high directivity speakers (Innersound, Magnepan ,Martinlogan, Quad esl63) or acoustic dampening. I'm with directivity.