Recent content by VinceHoffman

In my 20.4'L x 14'W x 11'H room and 5.1.4 Atmos setup I followed the Dolby 45 degree best practice recommendations for the overhead speakers pretty much to the letter for the front overheads. However the rear Atmos channels ended up above and both slightly inboard and rearward of my bed surround...

The two channel signal chain side of our dual duty 2.1/5.1.4 big rig features Canadian made tubed preamplification- a Coincident Statement Linestage Mk 2 and a Foundation Research V5 phono stage.

Thanks for the kind words gentlemen. @3dbinCanada, A Delphi V that I sent back to the mothership and had upgraded to Delphi VI Reference a few years ago... @JStewart, the leatherette remote caddy was an Amazon purchase several years back...

Our double duty music and cinema room features two completely independent source, preamp, and bass management front ends. Only the L & R front active ATC monitors, the four Seaton subwoofers (in a distributed bass array), along with a DSPeaker AM2.0 subwoofer eq are shared between the two front...

Yes I did @RandyR. Two completely independent source, preamp, and bass management front ends. Only the L & R front active ATC monitors and the quad Seaton subwoofer array with a DSPeaker AM2.0 subwoofer eq are shared between the two front ends. All the silver boxes are 2 channel and black boxes...

I prefer a more spacious sounding acoustic too, particularly when listening to stereo LP and CD. So the front wall of our music & cinema room features a combination of diffusion and absorption, leaning more towards the former. My music optimized front stage setup is quite different than most HT...

Your side walls are really narrow due to the shallow depth dimension of your room arrangement. Typically QRD (phase grating) style diffusers are used in the rear half of a domestic listening space on the rear wall and possibly the rear sidewalls behind the MLP. But you must have at least 5 or 6...

IMHO, the shallow depth and long width of your current listening room doesn't really make QRD diffusers all that appropriate. They require some space between the MLP and the reflection point this sort of (reflection phase grating) diffuser is placed at in order to work properly.

The trio of Seven Audio black stained custom 2D QRDs in my rear ceiling treatment array have about a 5" maximum well depth and are 30" square.

If you reach out to Lukasz at Seven Audio in Poland, he can make you properly calculated BAD (Binary Amplitude Diffuser) "scatter plates" from 1/8" birch or maple plywood to mount over the absorbent faces of any broadband absorber panel. Lukasz will custom cut the exterior dimensions of your...

I've purchased some fantastic music-only Atmos releases in the past year and a half... along with several disappointing ones. The best music only Atmos release I've heard to date from a production standpoint is most definitely the Blu Ray Pure Audio version of the album Point by the venerable...

Wasted money. Describing these as "bass traps" is false advertising. These will provide NO appreciable low-frequency absorption and only absorb mid and high-frequencies... Which largely defeats the purpose of employing corner traps. If you are in the USA, take a look at GIK acoustics for some...

I'm totally with you on your past observation about the benefits of broadband trapping your TV screen while listening to music. However I'm pretty dubious about your second anecdotal observation with regards to your Elite CLR3 projection screen. Unless the screen material is specifically...

Well once the arrival time difference between the direct sound and the primary reflection exceeds 6 milliseconds, the ear-brain is supposed to be able to identify the reflection as an echo and disregard it with regards to source localization. I suppose you could perform an impromptue experiment...

Well there @thothsong, I don't really see that particular reflection being much of a problem from a psychoacoustics point of view. The direct sound from those surround speakers must be arriving at your ears in about 4-5 milliseconds. The reflection of the same speakers from the TV screen up...