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Contract Creation. Dashboard Development. CoinScope Audit. KYC Team. Staking Pools. Play-To-Earn Games. Certik Audit. Exchange Listing With Tokenomics. Dashboard Launch. Seamless V2 Launch. Custom Reflections Launch. The most deadly places to listen are those where the natural modal frequencies of the room are being cancelled, because then you are hearing something completely different from what others in the room are hearing. For instance, a 14 foot long room would have a large boost generally at 40 Hz due to modes, but at 7 feet from the front wall there would be a serious null at that frequency due to destructive interference.

If the listening position were placed at this half-way point, you'd hear very little at 40 Hz while those at the back of the room would hear a boost because 40 Hz is a modal frequency. Similarly, the second harmonic of 40 Hz 80 Hz will exhibit a null at the point one quarter of the distance from the back wall. If you listen at this point the same problem is present, where the bass you hear is radically different from that heard at other points in the room. If you draw a graph carrying this out to the first 5 or 6 harmonics, you'll notice that the point in the room that is least affected is 38 percent from the front of the room.

Coincidentally, this is also the Golden Mean point. By Ethan Winer. It's well known that placing your loudspeakers and listening position correctly is the first step toward getting good sound, especially at low frequencies.

While positioning alone won't eliminate the need for acoustic treatment and bass traps, it's an easy and free way to help reduce low frequency response errors. In this article I'll describe a simple yet effective way to determine the optimum placements for both stereo and multi-channel listening rooms. I'll also explain how to calculate the first reflection points when the walls are parallel and the ceiling is flat, which is typical for most rooms.

The dimensions used in these examples are similar to those of the RealTraps Lab, a working recording studio we built within the RealTraps factory to help us research acoustic treatment and related issues. Also see the expanded version of this article on our Videos page. As you can see in the drawings at left, loudspeakers should face the long way down the room.

Peaks and nulls become worse as you approach the rear wall behind you, and this orientation puts the listening position farther from that wall. As proof, Figure 3 shows the response in a small room measured both ways. The next step is to identify the ideal listening position within the room, and from there you can determine the best speaker placement. All rectangular rooms have a deep bass null at the halfway points - halfway between the front and rear walls, halfway between the left and right sides, and halfway between the floor and ceiling.

Therefore, the worst place to sit is exactly halfway back in the room, with your ears halfway between the floor and ceiling. There's also a null halfway between the left and right walls, but symmetry is needed for good stereo imaging so most setups are centered left-right. Having bass traps in the room helps to minimize the bass null.

Loudspeaker tweeters should be at ear level for the flattest response, and the speaker cabinets should be angled to face the listener or prime seat. Note that the tweeters in the rear surround speakers should also be at ear height. Some people recommend placing surround speakers high up on the side or rear walls, mimicking the setup of some commercial movie theaters.

But that's a throwback to years past, when a single rear channel contained the surround information rather than separate channels as in today's 5. Back then, some movie theaters placed one or more speakers high up on the rear wall to increase ambience by including the room's natural reverb. But that was long ago, and in theaters much larger than anyone's living room.