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Poor Standard of Home Cinema Demo Rooms
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<blockquote data-quote="Timber_MG" data-source="post: 1088485" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>People who sell foam as a valid acoustical treatment should be ashamed in 90% of cases. Almost universally when one encounters it used as major treatment the best course of action is removal when there are well performing loudspeakers at play.</p><p></p><p>In the market out there, the sale is not really often concluded on the basis of technical demos, at least not comparatively.</p><p></p><p>Theater is a human voice centered medium, but the narration is frequently near field cardioid recorded and warmer than natural. The medium is both a projection to suggest an inner voice and to detach the narration from the visuals on screen. Thus people will associate boom and mud with added warmth temporarily. In a theater or a proper acoustic space one gets the more intimate warmth but a voice remains coherent and floating. In some of the acoustic atrocities it's disorientating and only the override of the visual senses over the auditory make people willing to ignore it I guess, but anything out of balance won't ever lean a listener to relax psycho-acoustically.</p><p></p><p>The lock down has seen quite a few looking to produce content on streaming platforms. Even with directional mics and near field recordings. In those streams about audio gear it's often sad to hear someone wax lyrical about some gear, all the while sounding alien.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Timber_MG, post: 1088485, member: 18"] People who sell foam as a valid acoustical treatment should be ashamed in 90% of cases. Almost universally when one encounters it used as major treatment the best course of action is removal when there are well performing loudspeakers at play. In the market out there, the sale is not really often concluded on the basis of technical demos, at least not comparatively. Theater is a human voice centered medium, but the narration is frequently near field cardioid recorded and warmer than natural. The medium is both a projection to suggest an inner voice and to detach the narration from the visuals on screen. Thus people will associate boom and mud with added warmth temporarily. In a theater or a proper acoustic space one gets the more intimate warmth but a voice remains coherent and floating. In some of the acoustic atrocities it's disorientating and only the override of the visual senses over the auditory make people willing to ignore it I guess, but anything out of balance won't ever lean a listener to relax psycho-acoustically. The lock down has seen quite a few looking to produce content on streaming platforms. Even with directional mics and near field recordings. In those streams about audio gear it's often sad to hear someone wax lyrical about some gear, all the while sounding alien. [/QUOTE]
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