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Dear fellow FMs,
It is an undeniable fact that a room affects the acoustics especially from a stereo system. The size of the room, its shape, wall-finishing, furniture, furnishing, flooring - almost everything impacts the sound we hear from our system. Consequently, we try to address the same through speaker placement, room treatment, bass traps, isolators, DSP and what not!
But for someone who doesn’t want to implement any of the above solutions, the choice of the speakers becomes more critical. You’d then want to get speakers that are (relatively) less sensitive to the room condition - ones that can perform close to their potential in any room with minimal or no room treatment/sound processing.
Can we list the attributes/technologies in a speaker that reduces their sensitivity to room? For example, will a sealed speaker be less sensitive to room than a ported one? If yes, then this is one such attribute. What other attributes/technologies should one look for in a speaker that could allow one to get away by placing with any room with minimum loss in sound quality? Can we list them all?
Also can we list specific models of speakers which fall in this category? For example a LS50 or P3ESR? To keep it focused, let’s list speakers within the Rs 30k-3L price range.
Hopefully this will be useful to current and future FMs who are either limited in implementing or averse to room treatment and signal processing. Please contribute through your knowledge and experience.
It is an undeniable fact that a room affects the acoustics especially from a stereo system. The size of the room, its shape, wall-finishing, furniture, furnishing, flooring - almost everything impacts the sound we hear from our system. Consequently, we try to address the same through speaker placement, room treatment, bass traps, isolators, DSP and what not!
But for someone who doesn’t want to implement any of the above solutions, the choice of the speakers becomes more critical. You’d then want to get speakers that are (relatively) less sensitive to the room condition - ones that can perform close to their potential in any room with minimal or no room treatment/sound processing.
Can we list the attributes/technologies in a speaker that reduces their sensitivity to room? For example, will a sealed speaker be less sensitive to room than a ported one? If yes, then this is one such attribute. What other attributes/technologies should one look for in a speaker that could allow one to get away by placing with any room with minimum loss in sound quality? Can we list them all?
Also can we list specific models of speakers which fall in this category? For example a LS50 or P3ESR? To keep it focused, let’s list speakers within the Rs 30k-3L price range.
Hopefully this will be useful to current and future FMs who are either limited in implementing or averse to room treatment and signal processing. Please contribute through your knowledge and experience.
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