Can you solve all of these problems at once?
Context: You're designing a sound room for a group of people who sit, stand, walk around, and do yoga while listening to stereo music, and they want it to sound the same no matter their position or head height in the room without using headphones. Needs to have even response, similar loudness, and a balanced soundstage wherever you are in the room.
A: Vertical dispersion should be even without any lobes of interference. This can be solved by an acoustic point source.
B: Loudness should be as even as possible, even if someone is moving away from or towards the sound source. This can be accomplished with a line array.
C: Channel balance should be similar even as the user(s) move left to right. This can be done with extreme toe in or focusing sound more towards the other speaker so that the loudest on axis response is directed towards someone more the further they go from center. (See the JBL Paragon diagram and photo below.)
D: Crosstalk cancellation? This can be solved with something like the L800.
At this point perhaps a line array of stacked Genelec monitors would do the trick if they were extra toed in to have more direct sound the further off axis you were, and you'd build them into corner soffits. The line array would take care of making it a little softer when you went towards them because only one or a few drivers would be pointed towards you enough, and if you backed up you'd be within the dispersion limits.
Has anyone designed a room or built architectural speakers like this? Just a pipe dream but ultimately I'd love a house that had a room and speakers that could do this.
Context: You're designing a sound room for a group of people who sit, stand, walk around, and do yoga while listening to stereo music, and they want it to sound the same no matter their position or head height in the room without using headphones. Needs to have even response, similar loudness, and a balanced soundstage wherever you are in the room.
A: Vertical dispersion should be even without any lobes of interference. This can be solved by an acoustic point source.
B: Loudness should be as even as possible, even if someone is moving away from or towards the sound source. This can be accomplished with a line array.
C: Channel balance should be similar even as the user(s) move left to right. This can be done with extreme toe in or focusing sound more towards the other speaker so that the loudest on axis response is directed towards someone more the further they go from center. (See the JBL Paragon diagram and photo below.)
D: Crosstalk cancellation? This can be solved with something like the L800.
At this point perhaps a line array of stacked Genelec monitors would do the trick if they were extra toed in to have more direct sound the further off axis you were, and you'd build them into corner soffits. The line array would take care of making it a little softer when you went towards them because only one or a few drivers would be pointed towards you enough, and if you backed up you'd be within the dispersion limits.
Has anyone designed a room or built architectural speakers like this? Just a pipe dream but ultimately I'd love a house that had a room and speakers that could do this.
