IBLs in a square room

Posted by: k90tour2 on 24 September 2015

Hello.

I've been struggling for some time to get a coherent sound in my office, which is home to my main system.

Just reading a post last night, Richard mentioned the dreaded square room.

That may be my problem.  Pretty much 4 x4 with little softening.  I've been trying out various arrangements or acoustic panels with some improvement but I can't get around the fact that the room remains square. Some other threads mentioned trying speakers like Kans or N Sats or IBLs.  I run NAP135s.  IBLs appeal but I'm concerned about sonority. I sold my NDS because with all that PRAT, the distinctive sound of violins and pianos could not be distinguished. It became glaringly obvious when I didn't recognise Kyung Wha Chung's playing on the NDS but could via a Hugo. 

I'd not want to reintroduce that situation with a new speaker.  I have PMC 20-22 at the moment.  I loved SBLs when I was younger but the room may not like them.

Any opinions please?

Posted on: 12 October 2015 by Dev B
Originally Posted by Richard Dane:

Small square rooms are pretty hellish acoustically - only thing worse would be a small perfect cube.  Without wishing to sound trite, I wouldn't try too hard in such a room, you could spend a fortune and still be dissatisfied. I recommend a good quality headphone setup instead.

 

By the way, I will disagree with HH here on n-Sats.  Having run them with great success on the end of a CD555, NAC552 and NAP500 I'd say they can hold their own with some very fancy gear indeed.  Also when doing some testing of a pair of n-Sats (on n-Stands), some Kans (on Kan II stands), and some final spec IBLs, I surprised myself by consistently preferring the n-Sats with the digital front end.  However, I should add that I preferred the IBLs when the source switched to analogue (LP12, Aro, Armageddon etc..).  An interesting day....

Hi Richard,

 

i remember that experiment. It was with our old second system!

 

regards

Posted on: 12 October 2015 by Richard Dane

Hey Dev!  Yes, that was it.  An interesting afternoon.  

Posted on: 12 October 2015 by k90tour2

I'm appreciative of everyone's input.  Thank you.  I also appreciate that this may take some time.  It doesn't help that the room is an office from which I rum my business.  I have stock , boxes and all sorts of things cluttering up the space.  The system is a luxury, to enjoy whilst doing the paperwork. And sometimes i just have to pull back, take in the music and work later.

Posted on: 19 November 2015 by Christopher_M

What's the latest?

 

C.