room acoustics

Hello, A few weeks ago I got exciting news - we are getting a new house! (yes it is just like getting one more kid, in many ways) So what does an engineer-audioholic does in such case? Well, gets down to literature, measurements and guidelines to quickly design in a "perfect" listening space...

I'm about to embark on the design of HT in a house we're remodeling. I've got plenty of room for a decent size and design (at least 10x6x23, room within a room, etc.). Searching the net, there's lots of sites that assert that the Golden Trapagon is the preferred shape. Few of these sites are...

Hello everyone, I am new to music production and I want to arrange a room for music production. In this way, where should the speakers stand in a room and how can I make an acoustic isolation. Thanks for your time !

Thanks for reading this - I hope some experienced members can help me. Yes, I love the journey of measuring, listening, changing, and repeating again. However I have just spent 3 months tuning the speaker location and DSP/ DIRAC in my old apartment only to be moving to a new one! First world...

Hello, I want to discuss here the differences of wide and narrow directivity of very good speakers in context with room acoustics and more. One perfect speaker for all rooms. I don't think so. On conclusion of the research at of @Floyd Toole and others are that a good speaker sounds good in...

http://www.aes.org/tmpFiles/elib/20170305/18547.pdf This open access paper appeared in the most recent AES journal. Delay time and decay times were tested using various genres and musical tempos (bpm). The theory is that longer delay and decay times are better suited to slower music and shorter...

This is a post I made elsewhere to provide a high-level but detailed overview of how to look at room acoustics. It is the heart of the bible I follow. Hope you find it useful. ---- At high level, the key thing that unlocked this mystery for me, and hopefully will do for you, is to understand...

By Paul Hales of PHC. Lots of commonality with other experts in the field.

Computer Optimization of Acoustics By Amir Majidimehr [Note: This article was published in the January 2013 issue of Widescreen Review Magazine] At the risk of severely dating myself, I got my start in computer technology in 1970s. My first computer ran at one megahertz. No, I didn’t say...

There Is No "There" in Audio By Amir Majidimehr [Note: this article is slightly revised version originally published in the Widescreen Review Magazine.] Readers of Widescreen Review Magazine no doubt are familiar with video calibration and its importance in getting proper images from their...