Listening chair...fixed or moveable ?

[RBFC]

I personally believe that the change in sound was not due to getting his head above the tweeters (probably not enough angle change to affect DIRECT measured frequency response), but to changing the position of his head relative to its position in the room.

Lee

 

[Priaptor]

I personally believe that the change in sound was not due to getting his head above the tweeters (probably not enough angle change to affect DIRECT measured frequency response), but to changing the position of his head relative to its position in the room.

Lee

We can disagree on that. I don't know what kind of speakers he has, but height to tweeter has a big effect. In any case, we can believe what we want, the point is that height of the chair makes a difference as does the angle of the chair as well as location of the chair.

 

[RBFC]

Well, of course one cannot make concrete statements without actually having first-hand experience. It seems that there must be rather marked vertical comb effect for a difference of an inch or two to cause variations in direct frequency response. It seems far more likely that most all room/speaker combinations would have response variations with height, so chair/head position would definitely be a factor in every case.

Lee