Here’s an easy test with a track you no doubt are familiar of:
Granchester Meadows by Pink Floyd
Yes, it was produced, engineered with dated technology, but….
You should hear the birds twittering about 1m to the left and right of the speakers and about 1 m above them.
The picture I attach is what I advise you do with your front wall corners, they have made higher frequencies apparent and not obfuscated- what it does to the air is like a controllled grenade.
Jon
(I’m speaking with the full 500 system, superlumina, Sonus Faber Serafinos and £4000 of room acoustic treatment.)
Hi @JonP , I can see you have relocated your (range limited?) Monster Bass Traps from the floor to the ceiling front wall corners now!
Good that this adjustment does what it does for your room acoustics.
If you wanted to try a further tweak? get hold of some polystyrene VersiFusors, and place them immediately above the first reflection absorption treatment you have on the side walls.
I found when I did this is small adjustment in my room, the stereo image stabilised even more across all bandwidths, so you might find the birds even more realistic sounding in conjunction with everything else going on, including correctly perceiving the duck or goose landing or taking off from left to right at around 4:30 into the track.
PS: and also the cat stalking (the birds) at the rear left behind you?
Brilliant, thanks Edmund - yes placed where they are now is unbelievable. They are range limiters, and I have learnt that because of the ‘Z’ clip off the ceiling, bass gets controlled and the range limiter stops the mid band and high tones making the room dead.
Little tweaks I love, so many thanks for your advice - I will follow it!
Jon
PS You’ll see I have secured my ceiling clouds with a view of possibly going another one in - but as you know this is high end tweaking so one must be judicious.
PPS Yeah yeah the aesthetics are still grubby - all in due course!
Er, all of that minus the room treatment. As in, yes my system does that. No it didn’t need any of the room treatment etc.
Not a track i’m familiar with but tried it out of interest. For accuracy it should be noted that whilst their height varies they also move back and forth. Clearly if you’re not getting that too then you’ll need to rip some room treatment out
Yes I do get some front to back, but here’s the delicate part - just like mixing your ideal cocktail - the tweaking balance must be just right. As I posted in a separate thread, the front ceiling wall corners were where my GIK acoustics 244 panels with range limiters went. On the front wall, they took out life even though the range limiter cuts off the frequency absorption above a certain frequency. Being 1m behind my speakers was not enough for the desired effect to occur.
Now folk put diffusers on the front wall to give depth - the brain cannot perceive the front wall due to scattering, but it took away the central image focus for me.
But my next step will follow what Edmund of Essex suggests as a little tweak - forget their name here but at about £44 each I can address my first reflections a bit. I will update with photos when done!
