Have had a Stewart Studiotek 130 w/a JVC RS2 PJ for the last few years. Very happy with the Stewart BUT
its 8' width spans most of the distance between my main speakers, essentially putting the acoustic reflectivity of a hard painted wall between them. Not good for acoustics -- hanging absorption over it very noticeably improves sound -- I'm concerned primarily w/music playback here.
So, seems my options are A), coming up w/some solution to mechanically move in acoustic absorption over the screen when listening to music, but I find this to be an inelegant hassle or B) going to an AT screen, offsetting it from the wall and putting absorbative panels behind it. Problem here is IQ hit of using an AT screen vs. the Stewart.
Thoughts anyone? Room is a black box, btw, PJ about 11' away so don't need much gain. I'm getting samples of AT material from SMX and Seymour to test. Will get some of the Stewart microperf too, but am skeptical despite their charts and graphs that that design can really be very 'AT'
its 8' width spans most of the distance between my main speakers, essentially putting the acoustic reflectivity of a hard painted wall between them. Not good for acoustics -- hanging absorption over it very noticeably improves sound -- I'm concerned primarily w/music playback here.
So, seems my options are A), coming up w/some solution to mechanically move in acoustic absorption over the screen when listening to music, but I find this to be an inelegant hassle or B) going to an AT screen, offsetting it from the wall and putting absorbative panels behind it. Problem here is IQ hit of using an AT screen vs. the Stewart.
Thoughts anyone? Room is a black box, btw, PJ about 11' away so don't need much gain. I'm getting samples of AT material from SMX and Seymour to test. Will get some of the Stewart microperf too, but am skeptical despite their charts and graphs that that design can really be very 'AT'