It's Like Being There!

The Drawbacks of Conventional Speakers

We often listen to music in rooms with walls. The design of most speakers ignores that fact or even forces you, the listener, to fight the room in order to get the best sound. They make you pull the speakers way out into the room and hang acoustic treatments to reduce the music’s early reflections. They tend to sound a bit unnatural. Worst of all, they confine you to one listening position to hear the speakers sounding their best.

The Reference Standard

Any well designed concert hall harnesses the power of early reflections to create a more spacious, enveloping experience, with excellent intelligibility of voices throughout the entire listening area. To achieve this effect in the home, which would rival the experience of the finest live performance spaces in the world, we’re going to need a different approach.

The Benefits of Omnidirectional Speakers

Omnidirectional speakers radiate sound with perfect 360-degree horizontal dispersion. The sound coming from the back and sides sounds exactly like the sound coming from the front. So, when you hear the early reflections reverberating throughout the room, they mingle in a natural and pleasing way with the direct sound that reaches your ears from the front of the speaker. Indeed, the sound energy propagates through the room much as when listening to a live, unamplified performance.

Are Ohm Speakers Worth It?

Ohm Speakers keep their tonal balance throughout the room. And what a spectacular soundscape they create! It’s like the front wall of your room is lifting as a curtain to reveal a stage where the music is being performed. Play a well recorded track with vocals and you’ll hear the difference. There is really nothing else like it.

Evan Cordes Author

Evan Cordes is the Director of Operations at Ohm Acoustics.