Surround sound reference monitor speaker
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Don’t get me wrong, I think room treatment is important but unfortunately, it only treats the room as best it can based on that space. So if all speakers react differently, making acoustic treatment decisions in this scenario can only be an educated guess. Further to this, the acoustic room correction often takes place without the selected speakers in the space.
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They may even employ the best acousticians and buy the best materials to correct the problem only to leave it all behind when they have to move. So knowing that even the flattest speakers won’t really be completely flat, studio owners, engineers and bedroom producers will spend thousands of dollars trying to correct their room with acoustic treatment. So the room has a lot to say about how you hear music. Not only do all speakers sound different in a particular room, that same speaker will sound different in different rooms. All speakers will reactive differently to the room they are in because the room is reflecting frequencies back in random ways. Further to this, and more importantly, no speaker will sound flat in an acoustically imperfect room. Some do a better job than others but no speaker is completely flat. Now here is the dilemma – if all these speaker manufactures claim to have a flat frequency response, then why do they all sound so different?Īs much as speaker manufacturers strive for that elusive “flat” response, it’s an ideal that is never really quite fulfilled. So fair enough – everyone is looking for the flattest speaker they can find. If you imagine a speaker has a 6db bump at 100 Hz you will most likely be pulling that frequency back in the mix to make the mix tonally balanced.
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The theory goes that if you mix on a set of speakers that have a “flat” frequency response your mix will translate well on other speakers because you are not compensating for bumps and dips in the frequency spectrum of the particular speaker you are working on. By “Flat” they are saying there is a minimal shift in DB along the frequency spectrum from very low to high frequencies. Speaker manufacturers are always talking about how “flat” their studio monitors are as if it’s the one key specification that is going to swing the votes in their direction.
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