active room nuetralizer???

I hear ya Erik,
I wasn't really leaning towards an app for me.we hear so many times about people not having the ability to use room treatment.And was just curious about there real world effects. as for my ht room slap echo is my foe...
cheers

after the holdiays i will come visit ...

Well, for slap-echo, the Bag End and other similar devices effectiveness is zero. :-)

Slap echoes are too coherent. Bass traps, etc. rely on the energy in the bass collecting in the corners. By sucking the energy out of the corners you eliminate the ringing. But this works because the rooms ring like a bell. If you put your finger anywhere on the rim of the bell it kills the ringing.

The slap echo energy is all in the middle of the wall surfaces and the wavelengths are too short to attempt to do this. Diffusion and absorbers work fabulously though. :) In fact, with the right lighting they may even make your HT seem less cavernous.

Best,


Erik

Erik_Squires wrote,
"Well, for slap-echo, the Bag End and other similar devices effectiveness is zero. :-)

Slap echoes are too coherent. Bass traps, etc. rely on the energy in the bass collecting in the corners. By sucking the energy out of the corners you eliminate the ringing. But this works because the rooms ring like a bell. If you put your finger anywhere on the rim of the bell it kills the ringing."

Give the Room Tunes Echo Tunes a try sometime. You’ll be singing a different tune. As it were. No one ever said Bass Traps did anything room echo.

I use the Bybee Room Neutralizers (non-powered) in my room- a set of 8 does the job nicely.  The DO make the room boundaries disappear sonically, but are not going to fix nulls, peaks, and other issues.  These need to be addressed first and then when the sound quality in the room is relatively even, the Room Neutralizers will take it the rest of the way.  Good Luck!

There’s a bunch of active and passive room "neutralizers" including but not limited to SteinMusic Harmonizer, tiny little bowl resonators of various manufacture, Lessloss Blackbody, 1 GHz Ultra Tweeters, Sugar Cubes from the tiny little bowl guy, Marigo VTS Dots for walls and windows, tiny crystals for room walls from Acoustic Revive, Schumann Frequency Generators of various manufacture primarily Acoustic Revive and Mpingo disc.