Room correction is a process by which you eliminate (or I should say,
attempt to eliminate) the nasty acoustic qualities of a small room. Even big rooms, such as concert halls, have issues, but because of their sheer size the problems are different in nature from those that beset a small room. And by a small room, I mean virtually every space that most of us actually live in, unless you reside in Buckingham Palace or the dining hall at Hogwarts.
High frequency issues, such as excess reverberation or even more serious problems such as sound bouncing off tile floors or one or more walls of windows, can be hard to treat. But they can minimized though not always in a domestically acceptable manner. If you love your shiny tile floors you might object to covering them with a thick carpet. If you love that open, full-wall view from your 50th floor Manhattan penthouse, hanging heavy drapes might be followed by divorce papers. You’ll find no shortage of help claiming that this sort of room isn’t a problem, and if you only spend gobs of cash for the right speakers, which they’re only too ready to sell you, the problems will go away. They won’t. Some situations will be intractable unless you’re willing to accept that you’ll need to add acoustic room treatments of some sort—or move.
Problems in the bass, roughly below 400-500 Hz, are different...
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