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The main issue with speaker placement in a typical home recording studio is standing waves, and in this case placing speakers against the wall is going to ampli
by kristo 6y ago
The main issue with speaker placement in a typical home recording studio is standing waves, and in this case placing speakers against the wall is going to amplify the problem, and no room EQ can fix it.
Generally, you want your speakers to be a half wave length away from the wall for the first order standing wave in your space. This is so the wave output by the speaker will cancel with the wave resonating between your walls, which will help the issue quite a bit (though it's not perfect either).
With something like the Klipschorn you're basically giving up on solving this issue with speaker placement and will have to resort to room modifications to ameliorate it. That said, you get a lot of benefits from the khorn also : )
- MrBuddyCasino 6y agoThere are different opinions regarding standing waves, at least regarding subwoofers. Some say they can actually be pleasant and beneficial, as they can boost perceived bass responses for smaller setups, depending on frequency and intensity.
- kristo 6y agoYea if you have one specific location where you listen to your music then you can certainly use the standing wave to your advantage, or even EQ the boosted response out at that frequency, but as soon as you move you will encounter problems. It's pretty remarkable to play a sine wave at the frequency of your room's standing wave and then just walk the length and hear it go from completely silent to very loud and back again. Makes you realize how much distortion this is actually causing
- MrBuddyCasino 6y agoYes, thus the „subwoofer crawl“. I think in reality most people have 1-2 fixed locations in a room where they usually listen to music.