Hello, this is my first post on the forum, although i have been following it for some time now.
I want to install a spatial audio setup in a room which is sort of the living room,
so i can't really have big speakers on heavy stands populating the room.
Atm i am considering an 8 channel ring in a space which is approx 18 square meters (6x 3m) and has a pretty high ceiling (~4.5 meters).
This is mostly for experimentation purposes. I am a composer and i have worked in the past with many setups (BEAST, wavefield synthesis, surround, etc).
I also record a lot of ambisonic material (1st order) and i am tired of only listening to them binaurally.
I already have 4 jbl 305 mk1 which are kind of meeeh, a couple of Fostex NF1A's which are far superior speakers
and a couple of Fostex NF6A which again are pretty mediocre. But generally these are bulky, heavy speakers,
difficult to place on wall etc.
So i am thinking either going with 8 small nearfield monitors (like the iloud mtm's or the newmann's kh80dsp or whatever similar otpion)
or with a pair of quad amplifiers and 8 speakers for installation (seeburg, jbl, etc).
But i have no idea about that second "world".
Does anyone have any experience with setups like this?
A ring of nearfield monitors seems simpler to setup (the mtm's can even be installed on a mic stand)
but i wonder if they'd be sufficient for that space (plus i don't really know if i need/care for the calibration and the dsp of such speakers)
On the other hand, i am not sure how "plausible" would those isntallation speakers sound and i don't really have a way to audition them.
Plus everythin from the i/o to volume control would be different for me. (i will be outputing from an rme ucx 2 audio interface)
thanks
Greg
I want to install a spatial audio setup in a room which is sort of the living room,
so i can't really have big speakers on heavy stands populating the room.
Atm i am considering an 8 channel ring in a space which is approx 18 square meters (6x 3m) and has a pretty high ceiling (~4.5 meters).
This is mostly for experimentation purposes. I am a composer and i have worked in the past with many setups (BEAST, wavefield synthesis, surround, etc).
I also record a lot of ambisonic material (1st order) and i am tired of only listening to them binaurally.
I already have 4 jbl 305 mk1 which are kind of meeeh, a couple of Fostex NF1A's which are far superior speakers
and a couple of Fostex NF6A which again are pretty mediocre. But generally these are bulky, heavy speakers,
difficult to place on wall etc.
So i am thinking either going with 8 small nearfield monitors (like the iloud mtm's or the newmann's kh80dsp or whatever similar otpion)
or with a pair of quad amplifiers and 8 speakers for installation (seeburg, jbl, etc).
But i have no idea about that second "world".
Does anyone have any experience with setups like this?
A ring of nearfield monitors seems simpler to setup (the mtm's can even be installed on a mic stand)
but i wonder if they'd be sufficient for that space (plus i don't really know if i need/care for the calibration and the dsp of such speakers)
On the other hand, i am not sure how "plausible" would those isntallation speakers sound and i don't really have a way to audition them.
Plus everythin from the i/o to volume control would be different for me. (i will be outputing from an rme ucx 2 audio interface)
thanks
Greg
