When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Finding standing waves (room modes) in a listening space can be done fairly simply. Just hook up ...

Sound has dimension, and it's sometimes easy to forget just how big sound can be. At 20 Hz we're talking about a 56.5-foot wavelength, calculated using 1130 feet per second as a typical value for the ...

The problem with the small rooms we listen in at home, and recording control rooms of comparable size, is that they so often present us with offensive bass booms, and the bass is different at ...

For a long time, conventional wisdom has treated large and small room acoustics as one in the same. But, there are fundamental differences and objectives between the two and thus they should be ...

First, alas, a bit of acoustics. Any room will have what is termed “modes,” which are areas of lower and higher pressures, and thus sound intensities, dictated by the dimensions of length, breadth, ...