How Big is a Big Room?

John Strohbeen    Wednesday, May 1, 2019    Articles

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…

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Room Treatment

John Strohbeen    Tuesday, March 14, 2017    Articles, Advice

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…

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Live End / Dead End

John Strohbeen    Monday, September 26, 2016    Articles

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.…

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Thinking Outside the Box -- Listening Outside the Room or the Bouncing Sound

John Strohbeen    Tuesday, March 1, 2016    Articles

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…

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Are there differences between theater/arena speakers and home speakers?

John Strohbeen    Tuesday, January 5, 2016    Articles

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…

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Anechoic Chambers

John Strohbeen    Tuesday, April 14, 2015    Articles

We often hear about “anechoic chambers” being used in developing speakers. What is their value, since home environments are not “anechoic”? Do they have a place in…

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