Needed to do an update for my people and thought I'd copy it here too.
Hi Guys
I want to take you on a little walk through on the small listening room. After playing in here a while I've learned much about how the space is working. Even without having my custom PZCs made yet the room with even basic products is sounding really cool. I'm able to shape the soundstage any way I want by making the room variable, something all of you might want to consider.
I could have closed off this room but with it being so small and the fact that from my writing/sleeping room I can hear settling changes, I decided to keep this area open and use the hall and other rooms as tuning tools.
Materials and space is what makes a room magic. This room being an odd shape gave some opportunities to my tuning of it that maybe a typical room may not have, but believe me it is not automatic. I've had to carefully listen to the pressure in the room and how it reacts when I divide the space up into varying ports and spaces within spaces. Here's a good side view of how my Tunable Wall is separating the front from back. Notice the window covering too. A major player in the voicing of the space.
I'm listening nearfield but not as nearfield as I usually do because of where the door is in the room. This was a bit of a problem for me at first cause I like to go inside of the music. The Tunable Wall is something every one should have in my opinion. Mine being a little on the shabby side has done wonders and I can't imagine being without it. Shifting from nearfield to mid and far fields is a dream come true with the wall. It's like adjusting a camera lens and gives me an inside look at the soundstage from many views. This particular T-Wall was made from left over wood from the Chicago Tunable Room (this explains the odd shaped sizes of panels used). I want to tell you something really important in this pic. See how the T-Wall is not toughing the side wall in this shot? Well the cool thing about what is going on in here is not only do I have control of front to back but I also have control of how much energy I want to get to the back part of the room. This has turned out to be huge in my tuning of this space.
The space between me and my front wall is fairly empty. I currently have 2 CornerTunes up and 3 Music Ply PZCs.
You can see that it is only 5.5' from the back of my speaker platforms to my front wall. My speaker platforms, equipment platform and PZCs (BTW also made from the same wood as the T-Wall) all are a part of my acoustical treatment as well as being my mechanical grounding tools. Moving them any little bit makes a big difference to the voicing of this system.
It may not look like it but there is 8' of space behind the Tunable Wall. 6' of it is being used as a vented port where I have acoustical product back there tuning. The changes I can make to the sound from behind me is astounding. In fact I can put myself right in the middle of the recording if I want and shape how it wraps around me.
Between the variably tuned port behind me and the door that goes into the hallway I have a ton of voicing options at my figure tips. BTW my highs don't fatigue at all. They are extended and even warm. This area of the room is a tool that helps me tons when voicing individual recordings.
My tuning does not stop at my door way. It goes far beyond down the halls to the other listening areas and casual rooms. I have a PZC at the doorway that I use to voice the energy coming in and out of the hall.
This area of TuneLand, just outside of the small room, has closet doors and openings to the rest of the place. By shaping the closet doors into patterns of open and closing plus the RT pillow tuning I can effect the sound dramatically inside of the room.
I could take you down the halls into the other parts of the place but it would be a picture of the same, one voiced space after another. Here's a view of the tuning done right outside of the small room looking at the upper space in the hall. I voice the energy before in comes back into the room. There's a great sense of fair exchange that take place in these hall areas and it's actually very nice to listen to there.
And finally a peek at a corner in one of the rooms closest to the small room. My writing/music storage room where I have the sound nice for over flow listening. BTW the wall covering is extremely sheer and all the art is not very bulky and dampened. From here I can make judgement calls on things like the music settling which is a big help to me as it tells me when to go in and listen. This room also helps to voice the hall be used as the port for some of the other spaces.
While taking these pics I was listening to Jack. So nice.
Hope everyone is having a great day of listening.
Edited by
mg1959
on Sat 05/19/12 01:32 PM