Room Treatment - Verity Audio Arindal Owner's Manual

Arindal
R1.0
We suggest that you start with the speakers aligned directly at you.
Then open them (angle increase) slowly until you get the best sounds-
tage without losing too much center-stage definition. In most cases,
the left speaker should be aligned toward your left shoulder and the
right speaker should be aligned toward your right shoulder. Opening
them will improve your image width and closing them will improve
your image center definition.

Room Treatment

The Arindal gives its best performance in an average-furnished domes-
tic listening room. It requires a minimum of room treatment. Before
investing in room treatment, we strongly recommend that you take
the time to listen and get familiar with your speakers. The Arindal has
proven to be a standalone loudspeaker that rarely needs to be acous-
tically corrected. A good room placement is usually the most effective
approach.
You should always start to position your speakers without any treat-
ment. If speaker positioning cannot solve standing waves or reverbera-
tion problems read the following.
The principal design factor for internal acoustics of a room, in addition
to shape and size, is the control of sound absorption and reflection.
The total absorption required to give optimum reverberation is inhe-
rent to your room characteristics, i.e., which surfaces are absorptive
or reflective, the area of these surfaces and the selection of acoustical
materials.
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A flutter echo is a rapid (usually regular) succession of reflected pulses
resulting from a single pulse. Clapping your hands while walking in the
room can easily identify them. They are frequently located at the cei-
ling corners or at the center of the ceiling-wall intersections. If flutter
echoes are prominent, please consult your dealer to get proper assis-
tance on that matter.
The reverberation in the room is the resulting tendency for sound
levels in the room to persist after direct sound ceases. The optimum
reverberation time for a room depends upon room volume, sound fre-
quency, and the type of sound or reproduced music. The Arindal per-
forms at its best in lively listening rooms. Overly damped room will be
detrimental to most loudspeaker performance. Optimum reverbera-
tion time (at 500 to 1,000 Hz) should be between 0.4 and 0.6 second.
Standing waves are reflections from opposing parallel surfaces resul-
ting in audible peaks and dips in the reverberation time / frequency
curve. In properly proportioned rooms, resonances can be effectively
reduced and standing waves practically eliminated by introducing
sound treatment devices. The object is to prevent sound reflection
from going back to the point of origin until after several reflections
and/or after being considerably attenuated. Once again if you feel ha-
ving a standing wave problem in your room, please consult your dealer
to get proper assistance on this matter.
Early reflections are the very first sound reflections reaching the
listening position. If strong, they could alter the overall loudspeaker
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