Hi
Has anyone experimented successfully with room treatment, particularly in reducing "first reflection"?
Tackling this seems to be a first recommendation from many of the companies selling absorber panels - i.e. placing the panels on the side walls between speaker and listener, and possibly also on the ceiling in order to reduce the amplitude of the first reflected sound reaching the user.
Another view (see link) is that this is a bad thing to do, and this Hifi News link suggests that it can make matters worse. (Since absorbers work primarily at frequencies above a few hundred Hz, they don't remove the reflection but merely change its spectral response. The argument is that a reflection with a significantly different spectral composition causes greater subjective disturbance.)
https://www.hifinews.com/content/room-treatments
Anyone any wisdom or experiences to share?
Has anyone experimented successfully with room treatment, particularly in reducing "first reflection"?
Tackling this seems to be a first recommendation from many of the companies selling absorber panels - i.e. placing the panels on the side walls between speaker and listener, and possibly also on the ceiling in order to reduce the amplitude of the first reflected sound reaching the user.
Another view (see link) is that this is a bad thing to do, and this Hifi News link suggests that it can make matters worse. (Since absorbers work primarily at frequencies above a few hundred Hz, they don't remove the reflection but merely change its spectral response. The argument is that a reflection with a significantly different spectral composition causes greater subjective disturbance.)
https://www.hifinews.com/content/room-treatments
Anyone any wisdom or experiences to share?