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Room Acoustics Examined - Part One

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Old 26-07-2009, 11:25 PM   #1
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Room Acoustics Examined - Part One
We visit Rob Sinden at the new Gecko showrooms to find out about their views on room acoustics. Part One of Two.

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Old 27-07-2009, 4:10 PM   #2
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Re: Room Acoustics Examined - Part One
Thanks Phil, very informative video and something to consider (well a rug definately as have laminated floor)

Look forward to part 2
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Re: Room Acoustics Examined - Part One
Very good explanations, love the 'mirror' trick, can't wait for part two.

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Re: Room Acoustics Examined - Part One
Excellent video Phil. Thanks to Rob also for heping to educate us HC nuts!

Looking forward to parts 2 and would be interesting to see how Rob/Gecko treated the demo rooms with the equipment and the challenges that had to be overcome
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Re: Room Acoustics Examined - Part One
Some very very good explanations of room accoustics from Rob, he made thing's really easy to undertand.

Thank's to Phil and Rob for the interview
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Re: Room Acoustics Examined - Part One
Good stuff.

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Re: Room Acoustics Examined - Part One
.. Easy understandable ..
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Re: Room Acoustics Examined - Part One
Looking forward to part two
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Re: Room Acoustics Examined - Part One
Jeff Berryman, speaker system designer, in Toronto, has described Phil's interesting mirror/ reflection idea as: Imagine you are in a fully mirrored room, with a flashlight. Turn down the lights, get a tape measure, a protractor, and find the on-axis reflection points from the source locations/angles, at least......
Sadly, truly effective and predictable broadband absorbers/ diffusors have an extremely low spousal-approval factor. Best, to have a well-appointed man-cave, with bueno acoustic behaviour.
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Re: Room Acoustics Examined - Part One
A very interesting and easy to understand video. I kind of have reasonable acoustic properties in my living room at the moment by accident really . I have a fireplace with a very uneven shape and surface right where the sound would be reflecting to me from the left speaker and bay with a book case, chair etc. where the right speaker would be reflecting.

It does actually sound very good, even though i'm currently using a rather old set of sony 5.1 speakers!

Looking forward to watching part 2!
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Re: Room Acoustics Examined - Part One
good stuff, love the bit about wife acceptance factor funny but so true
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Re: Room Acoustics Examined - Part One
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good stuff, love the bit about wife acceptance factor funny but so true
haha.

short and infomative; great video =]. I picked up a few things from that.
Thanks!
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