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www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/latest/119694405/how-to-balance-the-sound-in-your-home

A reminder about the importance of home acoustics, not only for audio enthusiasts, but for everyone living in urban environments which are tending to become medium to higher density these days.

Electric buses would of course help the guy in the video, who seems to live just a few metres from a bus stop in Seatoun.

Europeans also, have learnt to live in higher density cities, in a way that we have yet to learn - being more tolerant, thoughtful & accepting.

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one aspect not mentioned is the generally poor construction of nz houses.

I’m not sure where and how, but I came to believe that the perfect listening room had to be a rectangular room with minimal nooks and crannies, but the article points out that this room would not work well, that instead an irregular shaped room was best for audio. That gives me hope as I have yet to live in a house with one perfectly rectangular room.

My understanding that any room should have dimensions that are not multiples or even-fractions of any of the other room dimension (H x W x D).
This is to avoid 'standing wave' (wall-to-wall or floor-to-ceiling natural resonances) reinforcement of LFs - lumpy bass.

An irregular room would be one way of avoiding standing waves, but in my experience, an irregular room or even non-matching surface materials (eg curtains on ONE side of my own room) can cause anomalies in stereo reproduction.

Every room has natural (LF) resonances & the important thing is to try to ensure that none of these resonances are excited more than any of the others - for most uniform bass response.

The other factor is that our houses, being timber-framed mostly, tend to be much more resonant than concrete or masonry buildings common overseas - resulting in lumpier bass with less bass extension. (I remember a Klipschorn LF test comparison between masonry & wood-framed rooms.)

Just my general take on this.

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irregular rooms also make it difficult to place speakers symmetrically.