Thread: Stage "height"

Soundstage and tonality is what the listener makes it. I've heard some setups that sound absolutely amazing, but may sound like crap to the next.

At my dB Drag show this weekend there was a SQ competition booth there. I watched some of it, and the judging. What a joke. It's all about pictures, and install.. and MAYBE 10 seconds of a judge listening to the sound...

Does the same apply to home audio.. where you say to avoid reflections? Everything I've read, and have been told (by the local theater) is that I need as many reflections as possible, that's why walls and ceilings are never flat in a theater...

Originally Posted by casper129

Soundstage and tonality is what the listener makes it. I've heard some setups that sound absolutely amazing, but may sound like crap to the next.

At my dB Drag show this weekend there was a SQ competition booth there. I watched some of it, and the judging. What a joke. It's all about pictures, and install.. and MAYBE 10 seconds of a judge listening to the sound...

Does the same apply to home audio.. where you say to avoid reflections? Everything I've read, and have been told (by the local theater) is that I need as many reflections as possible, that's why walls and ceilings are never flat in a theater...

In a theatre or an opera hall, the shape of the room is acoustically designed so that sound is projected so that you don't need amplification or as much amplification.

When reproducing sound, you want to avoid reflections as much as possible to allow the speakers to do the projecting for you.



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If you can't avoid it, then you treat the room.

Can't treat your windows, so theres no point in any acoustic treatment in a car.

And no, i'm not talking about things rattling.

Soundstage and tonality is what the listener makes it.

Soundstage is either there or it isn't. The depth or scope of it can vary but its presence does not.

Tonality, I completely agree. Its whatever sounds best to you.