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8、Room Position
Introduction
The listening room forms the final link of the playback system, as important as any other component in the chain. Just as an otherwise superb system is handicapped by an inferior pre-amplifier (for example), so can a well-matched system be hindered by poor room acoustics. It is not necessary to listen to your system in a specially-designed sound chamber in order to enjoy it. In fact, a dedicated listening room usually requires additional sound treatment, due to a lack of other items in the room that can help provide proper acoustics. However, attention to the listening environment can greatly increase your system's performance.
Listening in a properly set-up room can be a startling experience. Due to the limitations of the two-channel format and the listening environment, the illusion of actually being transported to the recording site cannot usually be achieved. However, an uncanny sense of realism can be created. Perhaps it is best described as if the front half of your listening room has been removed, so that it now opens out into the recording site.
To optimize your equipment set-up and the listening-room acoustics requires a basic understanding of the principles which affect the propagation of sound in the room. Also, we will discuss the way in which our brain interprets spatial cues, and how the room acoustics can affect our sonic perceptions.
An Optical Analogy
Let us use an optical analogy to aid our understanding of acoustics. Imagine that you are in a room that is lit only by a candle in its center. There is a uniform amount of light cast in all directions. If a large mirror is held closely to a candle, one half of the room becomes darkened, while the other half receives twice as much light. This is because there are effectively two candles now illuminating that half of the room, the real candle, and the virtual (or reflected) candle. The energy that had been sent to both sides of the room has now been concentrated in one side only.
If we repeat the same experiment using a large piece of black cloth instead of a mirror, the results will be somewhat different. The side of the room behind the cloth is darkened, just as before, but the level of light on the side of the candle remains unchanged. This is because the light is absorbed by the cloth, rather than being reflected back into the room.
Thus we can see that the energy can either be absorbed or reflected. A similar situation occurs with sound waves, although we must account for the much greater wavelengths of audible frequencies. Of course no material is a perfect absorber or an absolute reflector. Furthermore, the sonic absorption coefficient of a given material usually varies with frequency.
Basic Room Acoustics
The great majority of all listening rooms are rectangular, with parallel surfaces.The walls and ceiling are typically hard surfaces, which are acoustically reflective. These large areas are the predominating factors in the overall room acoustics, although the other items in the room (furnishings, carpeting, wall hangings, doorways, etc.) will also play a role. Without going into excessive detail, there are four primary areas of potential concern:
1. Standing waves.
2. Flutter echo.
3. Early reflections.
4. Bass reinforcement.
The first three items are problems which should be reduced or eliminated. The last item, bass reinforcement, needs to be matched to the entire system for proper tonal balance.