Depending on what a client is willing to do, we can basically flatten the response of any room, widen the sweet spot and even the decay times. This is hard particularly in small rooms, but it can be done. For rented spaces it's a little more limited, as you really can not do the serious construction to fully optimize a room, but there is a lot you can do.

In general EKG graphs are not what we're looking for (unless the person is dead--then that basic flat look is a good thing for audio). Can you e-mail me your graph and a drawing of the room? Even better would be to download the application form and fax it to me along with the graph. The form can be downloaded here. From that I could give you a very good idea of what could be done without the use of permanently installed devices.

rives April 28, 2003 11:17

Well, I'm always the "room could be the issue" kind of person. It's an occupational hazard. The room and speaker placement in general are the two things I would look at. Please visit our website Rives Audio and go to the listening room. It is a tutorial section and if you click on the speakers there is a white paper we wrote on speaker placement. The other area to look at is overall room response. Reverberation times and damping in a room for HT vs 2 channel can be quite different. In my room I optimized for 2 channel and the HT is certainly not as good as it could be, but if your room is optimized for HT, then it doesn't surprise me that the sound stage really isn't there for 2 channel listening.

rives April 27, 2003 21:53