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hendric0

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Re: Mini Monitors ~5K?
« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2015, 06:30:07 PM »

Usually you have to modify your room(or build a new room) for  good speakers. The bigger the room the better.
Lots of early reflection will kill most of the high fidelity info. Bad imaging, uneven frequency response and lots of detail is lost.

It depends, you might  get a half-decant result  in a smaller room with some clever speaker placement. Depends on the room of course..
5k is probably an overkill if you dont plan to use them in bigger( treated) room in the future.
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Re: Mini Monitors ~5K?
« Reply #11 on: July 03, 2015, 07:13:49 PM »
For speakers, room is almost 60 to 70% of the sound.  Hardware is only about 30%, maybe 40%.  This is after an extensive journey with speaker based audio experience.  Quite the eye opening experience for me because hardware is so much fun to play around with.  Room treatments, not so much.

Also, there is a balance...too much treatment can over deaden the room. 

My suggestions, start with bass traps for the corners and cover your first reflection points. 
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Re: Mini Monitors ~5K?
« Reply #12 on: July 03, 2015, 09:08:12 PM »
Quote from: shaizada on July 03, 2015, 07:13:49 PM
Also, there is a balance...too much treatment can over deaden the room. 

My suggestions, start with bass traps for the corners and cover your first reflection points.

Yep, and helpfully you can just plop tri-traps right down onto the floor in the room's corners, no need to mount anything, or even use stands. With tri-traps on the front wall corners and broadband traps at the first reflection points, over damping is very unlikely to be an issue. If the room is very narrow though and the speakers will be close to the side walls, I would recommend replacing the broadband traps there with skyline style diffusers instead.
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