The Listening Room Reality

Tehe :rofl: Mainly it reduces reflections both sidewise and from rear wall I suspect and simply allows you to hear more of what the system is giving. Yep, the kind people in white uniforms outside are waiting to take us away….:partying_face: ATB Peter

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Insanity here too, everyone who reads the ear cupping comment must surely try it….
Gary

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Would you cup your ears while in a concert? Maybe hold them close, depending on the musicians, but cup them?

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That would make you look pretty odd doing it in public!

King Charles has a natural advantage here!

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Because of the coffee and especially it is with cardamom… :wink:

I hardly think you can compare a concert hall/small church or chapel with a living room :wink:
Most modern concert halls are designed carefully and are acoustically engineered

Yes agreed but there are some very odd individuals around :rofl:

I have tried a version of this in the past but instead pulling my ears out to the side. I did this to see if ear shape and angle changes how we perceive sound. I found the mids and high frequencies had more detail and sounded brighter.
I was too afraid to post at the time but feel more confident now I know I’m not alone :joy:

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My listening room has a vaulted ceiling and I’ll tell you it creates more problems, with little to no guides on how to correct. I’v just installed the new 6" with 6" of gap and they have sorted all FP side reflection problems. I’ve now unto 12 panels and think all is finally good! Just the right balance.



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Nice space.
Gary

Thanks bud - finally sounding like it should too! Had one hell of a job convincing (only a small fib) the wife that panels on the ceiling between the beams would be hardly noticeable, but got there.

Well, there is, I find, a slight glare or glass-ness to the Naim systems in my experience, and that is rectified by upgrading all the cables system wide (though some more so, than others).

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I find the same sometimes but people will usually reply with room acoustics, setup, equipment rack, mains/earthing quality, recording quality, interconnects and human factors like we are not always receptive enough.
Fortunately I have the perfect place in most of those respects previously mentioned

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I found a slight glare, with some music it was more than welcome and with others ruined the sound. Thats why I changed amps. The new setup is much more traditional hifi with added PRaT. I do however find that on a whole I prefer the new sound, but also with some tracks really, really miss the Naim forwardness. This could be down to the room, speaker placement is a little limited. The mains, my cables and everything else are setup to a high standard which only leaves the system and room. Room acoustics helped a lot. …So I did a hearing test (on my computer using good monitor speakers) for frequency range I could hear, results were good for my age (mid 40’s).

I think the human factor is a strange one, some days the hifi sound sublime, perfect. Other days you think it not quite there. Mains voltage, heat, everything can be the same. I put it down to simply down to the mood you’re in!

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Looking great. I presume they are GIK art panels?

You do have a point here. But I prefer my music to play in my home to sound as it sounds when it is actually played. I am not convinced that the studio atmosphere of an enginieered listening room is what I want.
But then I have the privilege of a very large living/listening room, allowing me to place speakers well away from walls, so I do not need bass traps and the like.

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Got them from Blue Frog Accoustics - guy called Joe. Excellent quality (have GIK and theses are as good) and quite a bit cheaper.

I have seen Blue Frogs website. They do look good.

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…and that of course is a wonderful place to be.
I’m just finding it curious that people have a need to talk amongst themselves on this particular thread elevating their own domestic bliss with their own replay hence quantifying, why they don’t need room treatment. A few of us here who have lived on this thread since it began have managed to completely transform our own listening experience by simply removing room degradation to the point, where you no longer ‘hear’ it …… and guess what we now hear exactly, what our systems are capable of delivering musically. Once you’ve actually heard the difference, you would NEVER want or be able to go back. Enjoy Peter
PS. The statement which gets repeated ad nauseam on The Forum: ‘ It’s all about the music’ is profoundly true btw once you’ve dialled the room out of the equation.

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