Bang & Olufsen BeoLab 90 Technical Sound Manual page 56

"good" concert hall. A room's
acoustical behaviour a ects the sound
of all sound sources in the room. On
the other hand, humans also have an
amazing ability to adapt – in other
words you "get used to" the
characteristics of your listening room.
However, there is no debate that, due
to many issues (the first two that come
to mind are frequency range and
directivity) two di erent loudspeakers
will behave di erently from each other
in two di erent rooms. In other words,
if you listen to loudspeaker "A" and
loudspeaker "B" in a showroom of a
shop, you might prefer loudspeaker "A"
– but if you took them home, you might
prefer loudspeaker "B". This would not
be surprising, since what you hear is
not only the loudspeaker but the
loudspeaker "filtered" by the listening
room. This is exactly why, even with
automated room compensation
algorithms, some fine tuning may be
necessary to achieve a sound that best
suits your room and your tastes.
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