Hello everyone and thank you in advance for sharing your reflexions on this topic.
The purpose of this thread is purely on acoustic treatment of a room and more specifically how or what to change from a traditional studio design (without in-wall speakers) to a studio using Kii's.
I would like to share the current state of my reflexions with you and see what you think about it.
•Kii's (without BXT) broadly fire sound only to the front down to 80Hz. Below 80Hz they start to become pretty omnidirectional.
•Wavelength around 80Hz is approx 4 meters, placing them close to a wall is not a problem at all, on the contrary, the bouncing back wave will be pretty much in phase and help the front driver (i even think remembering Bruno Putzeys talking about this in an interview).
•Thomas Jouanjean (Northward acoustics) discovered through his years of work a more natural type of studio designs : FTB (front to back) that offers both clear and clean direct sound without room interferences (at the listening position) without the weird feel of too dead/anechoic rooms. These designs are praised worldwide as the offer bpth less ear fatigue and perfect sonic quality at the listening position.
Taking this into consideration wouldn't it be best when using Kii's in a studio to :
1) remove all acoustic treatment from the front wall (using "positive" SBIR to support the low end played by the speakers and hearing the sounds you as a human being produce, reflected by the front wall so the room doesn't feel dead like Thomas deisgns),
2) have the traditional absorption on the early reflexion spots (side walls, ceiling and back wall) maybe a little more to get the average RT60 below 0,3s (depending obviously on the room size)
3) fill the back wall with waveguide absorption/bass traps and maybe some extra tuned traps to the sides/corners to absorb the low end frequencies below Schroeder frequency and get the low end decay time match the rest of the room reverb length?
Asking this as in fact you can find many people talking about the benefits or bass directivity but i could not find a signe thread on how the shift of design from traditional to cardio has been taken into consideration for adjusting acoustic treatment.
WDYT?
The purpose of this thread is purely on acoustic treatment of a room and more specifically how or what to change from a traditional studio design (without in-wall speakers) to a studio using Kii's.
I would like to share the current state of my reflexions with you and see what you think about it.
•Kii's (without BXT) broadly fire sound only to the front down to 80Hz. Below 80Hz they start to become pretty omnidirectional.
•Wavelength around 80Hz is approx 4 meters, placing them close to a wall is not a problem at all, on the contrary, the bouncing back wave will be pretty much in phase and help the front driver (i even think remembering Bruno Putzeys talking about this in an interview).
•Thomas Jouanjean (Northward acoustics) discovered through his years of work a more natural type of studio designs : FTB (front to back) that offers both clear and clean direct sound without room interferences (at the listening position) without the weird feel of too dead/anechoic rooms. These designs are praised worldwide as the offer bpth less ear fatigue and perfect sonic quality at the listening position.
Taking this into consideration wouldn't it be best when using Kii's in a studio to :
1) remove all acoustic treatment from the front wall (using "positive" SBIR to support the low end played by the speakers and hearing the sounds you as a human being produce, reflected by the front wall so the room doesn't feel dead like Thomas deisgns),
2) have the traditional absorption on the early reflexion spots (side walls, ceiling and back wall) maybe a little more to get the average RT60 below 0,3s (depending obviously on the room size)
3) fill the back wall with waveguide absorption/bass traps and maybe some extra tuned traps to the sides/corners to absorb the low end frequencies below Schroeder frequency and get the low end decay time match the rest of the room reverb length?
Asking this as in fact you can find many people talking about the benefits or bass directivity but i could not find a signe thread on how the shift of design from traditional to cardio has been taken into consideration for adjusting acoustic treatment.
WDYT?