decrease speaker freq. response with paper overlay

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If you use combo panels one can have the best of both worlds. But you can get incredible envelopment with diffusion. With diffusion you often get an even wider soundstage, depends on type of diffusion. If you have no absorption you get a wider sound stage. In audiophile terms you might get better imaging but lose a wider sound stage. If you absorb the sound at the first reflection you will get more focus but lose some envelopment. If you have a speaker with a good off axis response you have options. that's not to stay hors or directivity speakers are bad as they often have more output, but the room is treated differently with them. Horns or directional speakers do not interact less with the wall they have poor off axis response and need to be absorbed. If it is different than the direct sound if can decrease the sound. the research shows that the first reflections can improve the sound when the reflection is similar to the response of the direct sound. Going by the research and classed I have taken as well as doing this for 20+ years wide dispersion speakers give you options. I say this as the lesson you already know, but so many miss. In my old living room, I had the space for the mains to be away from everything so I had no dedicated treatment and a very decent soundstage.

#Decrease speaker freq. response with paper overlay series

There is some trick mixing series and parallel connections without using all-pass filters.

#Decrease speaker freq. response with paper overlay how to

I would need to find the old papers on how to wire arrays in order to control the phase relationship. Might get some corner horn argumentation.

#Decrease speaker freq. response with paper overlay drivers

Another thought was to use line arrays of 2 inch drivers in the room corners in a triangular enclosure so it does not intrude on the door frames. Might make it worse, might make it better. One possibility is auxiliary tweeters moved down to the upper corners of the screen. Brainstorming how to do better, but with doors where I want the speakers, not much I can do.

I got the response better by converting from boxed to in-wall plate using the same drivers ( 4 crossovers later). Imaging is terrible and unless a solid center, it is decidedly not from the screen. ( 9 foot ceiling) They are within 2 feet of the sides.

I am forced to put my mains almost 8 feet up. My current HT room is about as bad as one could design. Your room, your speakers, your preference. Experimenting, when the mains were within 2 feet of the sides, the imaging went fuzzy. Really a double take when a sound came from outside the room! Side reflections were about 3 feet away. The soundstage went from vague left-right-center to wider than the room. But how? In my last HT room, a small guest room, I used 4 ' x 7' x 2' OC boards behind the mains. I found that controlling the 2-foot reflections to the rear is the number one key to great imaging.