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…
How Big is a Big Room?
Bosch Binge: Season 5 on Amazon I spend a lot of my day thinking about speakers, and I enjoy it. Recently I took a day off and spent very, very little time thinking about speakers. I was…
Room Treatment
If you are a music or audio professional, the chances are good that you will have a room dedicated to music and its performance or reproduction. For the vast majority of music lovers there…
Live End / Dead End
Most of the music we hear originates in a recording studio. Yes, some of us are lucky enough to attend live performances, whether they are classical, cabaret, rock or other musical genres.…
Thinking Outside the Box -- Listening Outside the Room or the Bouncing Sound
This may seem strange. But, a good test of how well a speaker and a room are matched is listening from Outside-the-Room (OtR). By listening through an open door while standing where you…
Are there differences between theater/arena speakers and home speakers?
It’s a case of “different strokes for different folks.” Speakers that create sound in a theater, arena or stadium have different obstacles to overcome and require different solutions…
