An audio control room ideally should provide a neutral (but not “dead”) environment to critically evaluate audio content. This is done by ensuring that the room itself and systems within it don’t add ...

John Dahl has been a volunteer instructor for CEDIA for the last 11 years. So it's a pretty good bet that virtually all of the CEDIA design and installation professionals who have passed through his ...

I am playing with REW, Umik 1 and MiniDSP 2x4HD on my living room stereo system. I am trying to understand the logic of measuring and correcting room response in Room EQ Wizard. Concretely, I am a bit ...

Imagine a "spatial" room correction to let all speakers work together to correct each other to overcome acoustical problems and get good sound at every seat. Dirac's on the cusp of making this a ...

For all the months of research that home theater and music enthusiasts put into finding the right speakers and electronics for their home theater or stereo music systems, few pay attention to the ...

Concluding our series on reverb, we tackle the behaviour of sound and reverb reflections in actual, physical spaces. Jumping once again into our discussion of reverb, let's start with another useful ...