Does anybody hear difference with a coffee table in place?
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Ken Kessler's music listening room.
• http://www.hifinews.co.uk/news/article/meet-the-team;-ken-kessler/9827
And we all saw that video from a professional audiophile audio reviewer in his professional music listening room.
https://youtu.be/H07NpWk_Xf8
I love that music starting @ 10:30 with great exaltation. Sublime!
I think it's this album:
And this song:
https://youtu.be/Z2DQz3Nffy4
Starting @ 12:35
It sure is:
https://youtu.be/P4IeHIb_T5k
I love that music starting @ 10:30 with great exaltation. Sublime!
I think it's this album:
And this song:
Starting @ 12:35
It sure is:
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I'd try, but honestly its such a piece of crap I'm going to replace it anyways.
Chuck, she is your daughter?
? https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC06W42l2hH4_pcd8SADAZvA
? https://www.leslieaustinofficial.com/music-1-1/
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You play the hand your dealt.
My room has its issues, less than most, not perfect but better than most. I wouldn’t voluntarily make it worse but understand that under many circumstances you have no choice or choose not to care as not caring is many times more of a hassle than the benefit.
Congrats on your daughter
Yes. That is her. Walked away from a great career in health and fitness in Dallas to move to LA and give professional singing a shot. Her TINY TINY TINY apartment is $2000 per month !!!!! But I give her a lot of credit for taking the risk. Only God knows how it will turn out!!
My tiny 16”x16” three legged stool side table doesn’t impact the sound one bit from what I can hear. It’s wood, maple.
My room is my place period as the 20 feet behind my setting is my open bedroom
It’s good as it’s absorbing , but behind my speakers is an area of 20/9/15 feet this is my living room par say
It has a huge 8 foot desk and 65 plasma on it.
At times many boxes are back there as well.
It all matters but it matters less for me as i really don’t sit and just listen anyway.
I do if it’s trying to review something I changed.
It’s good as it’s absorbing , but behind my speakers is an area of 20/9/15 feet this is my living room par say
It has a huge 8 foot desk and 65 plasma on it.
At times many boxes are back there as well.
It all matters but it matters less for me as i really don’t sit and just listen anyway.
I do if it’s trying to review something I changed.
Gordon, my take is that he is trying to drive his point home about all the numerous and sometimes expensive tweaks people make to their kit claiming ridiculous 'night & day' improvements yet fail to recognize a possible / probable sonic set back with the reflective 'obstacle'
Myself, I'm in the camp of nothing between me and the speakers, hell it drives me nuts when I see people putting 'crap' between their speakers
Exactly. That is my point exactly.
Thank you.
My comment regarding the “absurd comparison” was between a workplace mixing studio and an audiophile listening environment. I got the poster’s point and his further elucidation of his point in his additional posts and a nice PM but still believe it’s an absurd comparison as the environments of the two will by necessity have to be different.
I’m in your camp.
Just stumbled across this thread.......interesting. Not so much about whether a coffee table matters, more about us audiophiles. We should keep this one away from the authorities; they may through us all in the looney bin. Regarding the OP, I always refer to the science and go from there.
If the objective of an audiophile listening room is the pursuit of a perfect a replication of the recording, it will do so best by presenting the sound waves generated by the transducer with a path to the listener that is impacted by the environment in a manner which best reflects this goal. In turn, sound wave behavior is unequivocally impacted by all reflection and absorption in the listening environment. Reflection and absorption are a function of the frequency of each individual sound wave and the density, shape, hardness, and location of the objects in the listening room that the wave contacts prior to reaching the listener. Period.
Whether the OP or anyone else in their particular room, given each rooms aggregate reflective and absorptive conditions and the listeners unique auditory processing characteristics, prefer an outcome within this paradigm is a wholly personal thing. That does not change the science.
If the objective of an audiophile listening room is the pursuit of a perfect a replication of the recording, it will do so best by presenting the sound waves generated by the transducer with a path to the listener that is impacted by the environment in a manner which best reflects this goal. In turn, sound wave behavior is unequivocally impacted by all reflection and absorption in the listening environment. Reflection and absorption are a function of the frequency of each individual sound wave and the density, shape, hardness, and location of the objects in the listening room that the wave contacts prior to reaching the listener. Period.
Whether the OP or anyone else in their particular room, given each rooms aggregate reflective and absorptive conditions and the listeners unique auditory processing characteristics, prefer an outcome within this paradigm is a wholly personal thing. That does not change the science.
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