ABSTRACT
Rooms of a size appropriate for home theaters, home studios and recording control rooms do not require massive, highly directional loudspeakers. Traditional recording control rooms and studios are elaborately constructed and equipped spaces that musical groups rent at great expense. A study by Makivirta and Anet measured identical Genelec monitor loudspeakers in many recording control rooms. Loudspeaker directivity is one common failing in loudspeakers that alters how the sound is communicated through the room. Over most of the frequency range early reflected sounds contribute substantially, and indeed the early-reflections curve from a spinorama provides a good estimate of steady-state room curve. Movies and music are commonly mixed while listening at very high sound levels—much higher than is desirable, or sometimes even can be accomplished, in home playback. Good loudspeakers and amplifiers can deliver good sound, but merging them with dedicated digital crossovers, equalizers and amplifiers designed for those specific loudspeaker components, in that specific enclosure can yield even better sound.
