If you are in a desert, having a band performing in front of a wall is better than having a band performing in the open. Space without boundaries is far from ideal. You have no reflected sound waves, and everything is dissipated into open space. Reflections are important, especially the first reflections.
Category: Thoughts
In Searching for Meaning
Sometimes I wonder what the meaning of all this endless chasing of the perfect sound is. Looking at it objectively, it is a pain. First of all, one has to put a lot of effort into acquiring the knowledge, because it requires hundreds of hours of reading and digging into the subject. Then come the hours of voluntary work spent modifying or creating components. I’ve spent weekends braiding cables, making custom wooden compartments for filters, adjusting speaker damping material, soldering cables, gluing and sanding wood, and so on. Sometimes I ask myself why I didn’t spend this time doing something more sensible.
Speakers
Speakers are the most important component in an audio chain. I can’t remember any other component that has influenced my home audio system as much as my speakers have. Speakers disperse sound waves throughout the room, interacting with its boundaries, and one shouldn’t think about them separately but rather in conjunction with the particular room.