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In the Thread: Reflections pattern in Cathedral Ceiling listening room.
Post Subject: Purely Subjective DataPosted by Paul S on: 2/14/2010
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As one might suspect, the vaulted ceilings eat and augment the sound in totally unpredictable ways. Hard to say if sails would help or they might eat the wrong frequencies. I would start by trying to get the room as hyped up as I could and then start backing off on the elements I perceived as "too much". I dealt with this two houses ago, and I never padded or "treated" a big wall that was totally covered by a mirror, just because I wound up needing that big hard surface to keep the energy going in the listening area. I think I mentioned back a ways that the best energy in my present listening room is very near the first reflection point on the ceiling, about 2 feet away from it and 2 feet below the damned ceiling! Vaulted ceilings can help with a kind of "soundstage" portrayal, but they can be quite the bitch to really load usefully.
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