Yorkshire Mouth
Major Contributor
Can anyone tell me how room reflections are calculated with the Klippel?
To be specific, the combined effect of reflections will be greatly determined by the distance of the speaker from the listener in relation to the distance of reflecting surfaces.
This is going to greater then just a binary nearfield/farfield demarcation.
Let’s take a room, and compare it to others, same speakers, same distance from front wall, same seating distance, same distance between speakers.
Now the first room is 3m wide, the second 3.5m wide, and let’s increase that in 0.5m increments up to 6m wide. With every increase in room size the distance from side walls (and side wall reflections) increase, which (all else being equal) will make these reflections quieter, and will therefore they’ll have a different level of net effect on the sound.
I think I’ve heard Erin say in one of his videos that the Klippel’s measurements represent the reflections in a ‘typical room’.
So I suppose I’m asking, does anyone know the dimensions of this ‘typical room’? And wouldn’t it be great if there were a calculator into which you could enter the results from a scan, and change the measurements to see what different results different rooms would create.
In addition, I wonder if it’s possible for either @amirm or Erin to do this - I suspect they’ll have results files saved to an archive somewhere - so they could see what would happen in different rooms.
I just feel ‘nearfield’ and ‘farfield’ is just too binary.
Many thanks.
To be specific, the combined effect of reflections will be greatly determined by the distance of the speaker from the listener in relation to the distance of reflecting surfaces.
This is going to greater then just a binary nearfield/farfield demarcation.
Let’s take a room, and compare it to others, same speakers, same distance from front wall, same seating distance, same distance between speakers.
Now the first room is 3m wide, the second 3.5m wide, and let’s increase that in 0.5m increments up to 6m wide. With every increase in room size the distance from side walls (and side wall reflections) increase, which (all else being equal) will make these reflections quieter, and will therefore they’ll have a different level of net effect on the sound.
I think I’ve heard Erin say in one of his videos that the Klippel’s measurements represent the reflections in a ‘typical room’.
So I suppose I’m asking, does anyone know the dimensions of this ‘typical room’? And wouldn’t it be great if there were a calculator into which you could enter the results from a scan, and change the measurements to see what different results different rooms would create.
In addition, I wonder if it’s possible for either @amirm or Erin to do this - I suspect they’ll have results files saved to an archive somewhere - so they could see what would happen in different rooms.
I just feel ‘nearfield’ and ‘farfield’ is just too binary.
Many thanks.