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The truth of the matter is that nearly all listening and performance spaces benefit from proper acoustic treatment for critical listening.... or for fun listening that sounds good! You can own any amount of audiophile quality equipment, but if it's installed in a bad-sounding room the result will still be mediocre sound. Musical instruments and reproduction systems interact with the listening space they are installed in. We're talking about physics here: sound with wavelengths as long as 30+ feet down to only millimeters long bouncing off of room surfaces. Some frequencies cancel each other out, others are artificially multiplied in amplitude. A soundwave's interaction with the listening environment can cause such undesirable anomalies as: excessive reverb time, flutter echo, smeared stereo/ surround imaging, room modes (artificial boosting of certain frequencies) and comb filtering. (some frequencies are cancelled out to varying degrees) So even though we as humans have made great strides towards civilized living since the caveman days, in many cases acoustics are still not considered when building and designing our homes, offices, studios, entertainment venues. The emphasis has traditionally been on electronic solutions to acoustic problems, when in fact the most effective solutions are acoustic and physical. ie: proper room design and use of acoustic treatments! This is all beginning to change and great advances in awareness have been made in the science of acoustics and acoustic materials. Acoustic treatment makes sense and is an effective and efficient solution. |