Near Or Far Field Listening For This Room?

[MarkusBarkus]

...F Google. Carry on bravely.

 

[Republicoftexas69]

Hi Gryphon,
I just stumbled across your thread and I don't know where you have gone with it.
The room I have is 24' x 16' x 9'-6". I built bass traps around the ceiling wall intersection and I am very happy with the result.
I listen the long dimension. Speakers are 6' from the front wall and 7'-6" apart.
My seat is aprox 12'-6" from either speaker.

I will look for a couple construction pics.

Let us know what your decide

Brad, lovely room and system you have there.

 

[Gryphon8]

Sorry for not keeping up here folks. I've had a several attention needing matters, one of which was my trusty 'ol Krell KAV-300cd's transport went for the 2nd time in 8-9 years. That put a temporary halt to everything, while researching the subject of players, transports w/DAC's, etc. Ended up with a Marantz SA-KI Ruby & have begun experimenting with room placement. Having listened in far-field, I feel that the bulkhead is detrimental to soundstaging & is in effect, dead space & a reflection point. Now it's going to take some time for me to rearrange to a near field, as I had in the old house, with a bit more room here. The near field will allow a wider soundstage with unimpeded space. The old setup actually had a wonderful soundstage and depending on on how the source was mic'd, you could imagine sitting in the control room of a studio or a concert hall if it was recorded that way. The imaging went way beyond the walls in the room. I'll give a report once all is said & done.

 

[brad225]

Gryphon, how is progress coming with your room?

 

[Gryphon8]

Gryphon, how is progress coming with your room?

I'm currently working on it (while busy juggling other) & have been working on setting up streaming. I'm confident my best sound will come from setting up along the longer wall for near-field & am waiting on material to treat the room.

 

[brad225]

I hope you will at least try the long dimension to see what it can do for the sound.

 

[defride]

I'm currently working on it (while busy juggling other) & have been working on setting up streaming. I'm confident my best sound will come from setting up along the longer wall for near-field & am waiting on material to treat the room.

In case you've not already tried, you should be able to plug an iphone or ipad your into the usb on the Ruby and stream to your dac. Works on the front panel usb of the SA8005 I use as a transport. Sound is surprisingly good, the popular Eversolo ME as a pure streamer was no better. Easy way to get up and running while researching other options.

 

[Gryphon8]

In case you've not already tried, you should be able to plug an iphone or ipad your into the usb on the Ruby and stream to your dac. Works on the front panel usb of the SA8005 I use as a transport. Sound is surprisingly good, the popular Eversolo ME as a pure streamer was no better. Easy way to get up and running while researching other options.

I'm using a Mytek DAC+ with a SOtM streamer w/pwr.supply, MeLE Roon w/2TB & Tidal, but will be interesting to try that, thanks!

 

[cjf]

I'm using a Mytek DAC+ with a SOtM streamer w/pwr.supply, MeLE Roon w/2TB & Tidal, but will be interesting to try that, thanks!

I'm curious if you are going to consider (both) Long walls during your placement evaluation?

Might as well.

If possible, taking some kind of room acoustics related measurements will be beneficial in confirming which placement actually is better than the other.

 

[Gryphon8]

I'm curious if you are going to consider (both) Long walls during your placement evaluation?

Might as well.

If possible, taking some kind of room acoustics related measurements will be beneficial in confirming which placement actually is better than the other.

I'm actually working on setting up what I want on the walls (such as a Sgt. Pepper's blanket) before I run the EQ Wizard. Finally have streaming setup. Now it'll take some time to work on the room acoustics & moving things around the room. Just by listening I can hear that the room is too bright & needs taming. As far as both walls, after the Room EQ Wizard is run & treatment applied I'll take the 2 different setups & determine which I prefer. My understanding now is, that the setup against the long wall could cause some bass issues. Other than listening, this IS the fun stuff!

 

[Kjetil]

I have a 240 cm (8 ft) ceiling too. I killed* the first reflection from it with 10 cm thick 180*120 cm absorber.

*at least above say 400 Hz.