Forgive me Father.. aka confession of audio heretic..

[kumakuma]

19 minutes ago, fas42 said:

 

Stick some rock n' roll band into into any sort of space where they're got enough room to set up their gear, and have them play to people standing in front of them - which type of spaces stop them sounding like group of live musicians, playing? 🙂

 

Have them first play in an anechoic chamber then move into a room which has no sound absorbent materials at all in it.

 

Come back and tell us if you still believe the room doesn't matter.

 

[kumakuma]

2 minutes ago, sphinxsix said:

I tend to agree with that.

Quite strongly.

Speakers plus speakers-room interaction equals 85% of the sound in the room.

That's my simplest audio maths.

Put top hi end (and good!) speakers into a wrong room and you can get worse result than with some 10x cheaper ones but carefully placed in a room with a proper acoustics.

I've finished preaching.

Amen.

 

Let's see what Bev has to say...

[kumakuma]

24 minutes ago, fas42 said:

Just found this thread, https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/natural-sound.32867/

 

... only started reading it, right now, but it perfectly expresses what the journey can be like, discovering what is possible with sound reproduction. If one wants to move beyond a 'special effects' presentation style, and have something closer to how live music actually comes across, I would suggest that this could be good reading ... 😉.

 

Couldn't agree more.

 

Vinyl is the way to go if you want to come closer to how live music actually comes across.

 

Also extension cords. Lots of extensions cords.