Have you ever wanted to sell your speakers and try something else because they just don’t sound the way you thought they would? Maybe the something else you should try is acoustics.
“The result was….”Oh, my God, Oh, my God, Oh, my God. What did you do!” What David Spargo from Praxis Acoustics did was simply make small changes to the geometry of the system so that it wasn’t interacting with the room modes so strongly. There was a bit of offset so the arrangement was changed to asymmetrical rather than the equilateral triangle we all think we need.
In the first part of this episode, David goes in depth into human perception of sound and why we hear what we hear. In the second part of this episode, David gets practical discussing simple changes that make a big difference to the sound from our systems.
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WORDS OF WISDOM FROM THIS EPISODE
“We can’t possibly cope with all the sensory input our bodies collect every day so our brains filter, present important information and we fill in the gaps based on our experience. Does that throw subjective auditioning and reviewing of HiFi into question? Well yes, in a way it does”
“The shape of your ears, the shape of your head, what you know, references based on experience all changes what you hear”
“The most expensive gear in the world is not going to sound great in a bad room. A quite modest system can are really enjoyable, and other rooms you walk into and you just go “this sounds terrible, and you are insane.”
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People mentioned on this episode –
David Spargo – Praxis Acoustics
Andrew Hutchison – Dellichord
Brad Serhan – Serhan Swift
Floyd Toole – Author/Acoustician – Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms
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CREDITS –
Guest management, regular co-hosting – Brad Serhan
Host, audio production – Andrew Hutchison