Audiophile Sound in Small Rooms?
Audiophile Sound in Small Rooms?
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No Listening Room? No problem!
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been reminded of what is important when it comes to hifi. That is, listening to the music and enjoying it. While not everyone out there has a dedicated listening room, I wanted to give some tips, tricks, and ideas to maximize your experience wherever you’re listening.
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back in the mid eighties i lived in a small house with a liv rom of ten by 20.
at one end i placed my new polk SDAs with Carver M1 amp ,added a couch at the proper distance from the speakers and turned it on . after five minutes the interior walls melted and i had a big listening space .
An idea for a follow up video would be placement of a sub in a small room.
Or you can just ask your dad to make you an setup and let him fix it all something that happened to me 🙂
You might as well put your speakers on your ears. Or just use headphones.. Soooo unpractical.
Yes, I have a pair of Rega Aras that do extremely well in a nearfield setup like that in a small room. When I first got them, I didn’t really like them all that much until I pulled them away from the back wall, giving me a much more 3D presentation. It was a day and night difference.
The missing component; the room! You are right on! And Jazz at the pawnshop IS the finest recording on vinyl. For some reason I can’t click on that video of yours, but you are absolutely correct. The BRO 3s are very decent speakers.
Hey hey. In regards to the wall of sound effect you described when placing the speakers against the front wall, another thing to take into account is the front wall acoustical loading effect that will cause a dramatic boost in the LF. That amount of extra bass will swamp the mids and highs and have a significant masking effect. For this reason you must EQ down the bass using a subtractive low-shelf. If you do that, it really cleans things up and you may very well like the sound.
if he discovers his hat screws his ears,,, he will freak
Keep going, a little closer, closer, now put them on, headphones!!!!!! Wow you discovered headphones!!!!😂
Can you recommend any Active bookshelf speakers for 2 channel music listen?
My room is acustic hell – 13 x 13ft (4x4m) yes its a perfect square. I am sitting in the middle and there is obviously no low end at all because everything is canceled out. Solution is still pretty easy – dirac live combined with a sub. A Minidsp Flex can be integrated into any system. Absolutely amazing what dirac can do but still the sub is essential to fill the lack of bass and dirac is merging the sub and the speakers perfectly.
10 minute video to tell me to toss my room and nail a futon to the wall, can’t wait to tell da wife
STAX
15 x 12 x 9 a small room??? That’s 1620 cubic feet. That’s a pretty average/good sized lounge in my corner of the globe!
My audio room is a 3rd bedroom. 8’x10′ speakers Falcon M10
Ended up favoring near field, I know everything in a room this small is.
But, speakers are 4′ away and pointed right at me. Sounds pretty darn good
Turn speed up to 1.5-2.0 times. Slow, dull talker.
that my friend is no small space. Tell me how you would setup in a 10×10
A 15′ x 12′ room is small? My room here is 12′ x 11′ x 8′ ceiling and I don’t think its a small room. I’ve been in a lot of living rooms smaller than this.
In fact I have a 5.1.2 Atmos system in here
That’s not a small room.
Oh yes, you need good fidelity to listen to "The Wheels on the bus go round and round"
Wanker !!!
lol 15X12 would be big to me
If you are stuck with a putting small speakers on book shelf use a door wedge under each speaker and adjust the tilt of them. This can give you great depth. It also makes the speaker see the front and rear walls as non parallel. In this situation have a subtle toe-in. Thanks for the great video. 🙂
You obviously don’t know anything about the physics of sound dude. What a terrible monetizing product review. That’s all this was. Pathtetic.
“Lots” huh?
Helpful advice thank you and subsscribed and liked
At this level (of bullshit) better use….a headset bro!😂
Speakers should be hidden, subwoofers should be sealed and unnoticeable, equalizers should be taken completely out of the equation, and no speaker should be over 8". Also, cheap chinese class D amps and acoustic tiles for the win. 😅 Although, to each their own lol 😊 Good audio is in the ear of the listener.
Due to expediency, I put a pair of La Scalas in the corners of a 10×10 room toed in. In a what the hell moment, hooked them up to a Yamaha 2 channel integrated amp. Surprised the heck out of me
I’m listening to this on an A08pro:) sweet little VU meter. Work good with Fluance SX6 5.25 bookshelves. They boom in a small room.
You are one of the better, if not the best, audio guy on YouTube. As an audio enthusiast (not an audiophile, God forbid), I kind of stumbled into nearfield listening by necessity. Hear me out on this. The smallest room any of us have is our ears, but headphones fill that room up very nicely. One thing they can’t do is allow us to feel the music with our bodies they way speakers can. I have some quality bookshelves and even a sub (very unconventionally placed, by the way) in a rather small room, 19 feet long by 12 feet wide, and I have to use the narrow part for my listening area. I’m getting great sound, so it can be done. But I did think on the smaller side when it came to my speakers and that’s made all the difference. In effect, I have a big set of headphones. Only now, I get the visceral feel of the sound waves hitting my body as well as my ears. Keep up the good work, you are really good at what you do.
Yeah, I don’t know about that.
Wherever I’ve lived, the barrier to entry for good sound has not been room size, but rather, room usage.
But it wouldn’t make sense for us to talk about it UNLESS it’s to emphasize speaker placement need never be permanent.
1) Accept normal listening is background while you live your life. You don’t care how it sounds when dusting the room or folding laundry.
2) Move the speakers into position when the room is temporarily yours. Living with other humans will always make this a challenge, because even if they “like music,” today they’d really prefer to watch TV or have seating for visitors.
10′ 4" x 12′ and maybe 9ft ceiling
Here’s a trick that can work in small rooms: Place a bookshelf speaker on a bookshelf, and place the bookshelf on the wall. Surround the speaker with books that are flush with the speaker baffle, creating a soffit mounting effect. Either do this using a speaker that was light on baffle step compensation in the first place (many small speakers are), or use EQ to fix the bass and lower midrange bump. You just gained an extra 3 feet of space in your small room. Room modes can be a problem, but careful selection of the listening position (front to back) can mitigate the issue, as well as crossing over to well placed subwoofers.
you call that a small room?
a lot of words to say "equalateral triangle’
15×12 is not a small room. So, try again.
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Not a small room
I Have done both this and lots and they work to a point. and what i mean by that is it doesn’t work for everything you listen to. One track sounds really great your speakers completely disappeared. And the next song sounds like crap. So you get up move stuff around again only to find out your wasting your time. Because its the recording not your stuff or setup. And most of these guys don’t tell you this part. I only found one guy that did and told my just what i posted here. Thats when i stopped banging my head. a lot of the music i listen to the speakers do fade out but most of the streaming music does not. Thats my two bits its in the recording.
Get you some KZ ZVX
lol
May I suggest a good real estate agent.
Why do you assume small room means small budget?
Wow. Dude, buy yourself good headphones. For most of us problem solved. This looks ridiculous.
So far nothing is working for me in my small furniture filled odd shape room. I just can’t achieve soundstage.
Ain’t it funny? You talk about images, pictures but you forget to talk about the music , you must be an expert lol. If you want nice holographic pictures, get yourself a camera and look at them all you want. One day you might discover the true purpose of sound systems, they are not image systems. Just try to LISTEN TO THE MUSIC for once and you may learn something.
Oh yes ! Perfect timing ! I just got done with isolation in the attic. It’s not big at all so this video is heaven sent 🎉
I have my sofa 3 foot away from my back wall with no acoustic treatment.
I was using a pair of Sony floor standing speakers for 19 years and I thought they sounded fantastic.
But I replaced them with a pair of Polk audio ES20 a few days ago and the polk sound a whole lot better.
I never heard a phantom center with the Sony speakers. But I was listening to something three days ago and I literally had to check if I had my Denon X2800H set to all channel stereo.
But it was only sending sound to the front left and right speakers. It was amazing. I never heard a phantom center before.
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