Comment by Anechoic
14 years ago
No, even in that case, the room can still overpower the speaker. A $200 HTIB system in a properly treated room will sound a lot better than $28,000 Wilson Watt Puppies in a bathroom for example.
14 years ago
No, even in that case, the room can still overpower the speaker. A $200 HTIB system in a properly treated room will sound a lot better than $28,000 Wilson Watt Puppies in a bathroom for example.
Hum, my experience (I was sound engineer in a previous life) is that the first thing to fix bad sound is to flatten the equalizer and to remove bass enhancer. Then I'd put the speakers on a solid table in a relative symmetry regarding the listener, while checking they have the correct phase. All the rest is rarely necessary.
Sure, but that's a rather contrived example-- most people have a fairly normal room, and the average joe would be best served by getting a good pair of speakers, and a reasonable amplifier and DAC, before worrying seriously about room acoustics.
A fairly normal room is pretty awful these days, particularly with the trend towards timber flooring and sparse furnishing.
I'd even skip the dac (I mean I might not.... but a decent amplifier, and I just mean decent, like something that still works from the 70's or 80's) and a decent pair of tower speakers (needn't be expensive), and, well, just don't use the shittiest cables you can find (I mean as long as they are thicker than a few human hairs you're okay)- it'll sound far, far better.
Or get some half decent headphones.