Ime, the 1st consideration is the room you want the dimensions that allow proper sound wave movementreflection and treatments if necessary that enhance that. In this video, you will see an actual audiophile room with many common set up mistakes. I have been playing with it for a couple of weeks, and it has really helped me with speaker placement in my odd shaped room. When home theater was in its relative infancy, a 5. Speaker placement when i look for the best place for the speakers there are two things im interested in. Customize your floor plan, then drag and drop to decorate.
If you have a dedicated room its a great starting point, but if you plan to use this room for anything else its probably going to be a challenge to work just about any other furniture around the placement. Speaker placement is a powerful variable thats easy to control. I purchased some sanus steel stands and began to play with speaker location. Unlike other room planners, roomsketcher is easy, no cad or 3d software experience necessary. Two simple methods, developed by cardas and audio physic can be a. Placing the sub at this location means that the 2 nd axial modes are not excited. According to cardas, creating golden rectangles from the corners would put my speakers 9ft or more apart if i wanted to have space for recording ect. Setting up loudspeakers within a rectangular room article by george cardas very precise loudspeaker placement can open up a whole new dimension in listening, so i will outline the system that is becoming the standard of the industry. It places the speakers in a location where there is minimal excitation of room modes, so in my case there is one major room mode, but the rest of the response is pretty good. Place the speakers so the centers of their drivers or the center of the total driver area, if the. Able to accommodate both 70v100v and stereo music systems the software will graphically show room sound coverage, show speaker layout, and to provide. Anyone ever experimented with the cardas method of placement. I ran my measurements for my room through the online calculator, and my speakers would end up almost in the middle of the room.
Below ive pasted the calculation i used to place my speakers, have yielded great results doing so, just wanted to share to everyone as this places you in the best possible position in regards to nulls and peaks within a room. These diagrams shows the cardas ratios for speaker placement regardless of actual room measurements. Vizio just released a software update for all smartcast tvs dating back to. Magnepan mmg speaker placement poll steve hoffman music. Fine tuning the precise placement of your speakers in the. The distance between your room boundaries and speakers has a huge impact on your bass performance. This standardized listening room is a golden cuboid and is the model for the math used in this system. The placement of speakers in a room greatly affects system performance.
Another strategy for speaker placement, from george cardas, is based on the. Cardas audio is an oregon company with great service and friendly folks. Room setup, page 1 setting up speakers in a rectangular room by george cardas very precise speaker placement can open up a whole new dimension in listening, so i will outline the system that is becoming the standard of the industry. In a rectangular room by george cardas diagram a very precise. Try the vandersteen method, which in your room would put the speakers 2. Your room certainly makes the topten list for most important component, yet is the.
Square room speaker placement and listening position. See also the rule of thirds, often recommended regarding fronttoback speaker and listening area placement speakers onethird of room length from front wall, listening position twothirds of room length from front wall. Dont forget to choose feet or meters as your unit of measure and the listener level. The weather your room is hard to control, but its easy to tell the archers your speakers which direction to aim. The importance of symmetrical speaker placement in a small room cannot be over emphasized. Just draw your floor plan and see your room in 3d at the click of a button its that easy. This guide, written by george cardas, provides insight into golden ratio based system setup. Try the speaker placement formula in your current listening room, if youre sceptical. I remember the very first set of professional studio monitors i ever bought. Choose your atlasied speaker and the transformer taps that you plan on using. Every room is different, but there are several speaker placement and setup tips that will make your system sound better. The tips in your speaker manual may do far more harm than good.
Getting the right acoustics for your listening room. Ive been using the listening room from sitting duck software for many years to evaluate speaker placement in new installations. Hi, ive read a few times, the cardas technique for calculating speaker placement. This standardized listening room is a golden cuboid and is the model of math used in the system.
Heres the advice you can ignore, and what to do instead. If we take all measurements from the centre of the bass driver or the. Use acoustic measurement software like room eq wizard to test your room as. This company not only designs your space, but allows you to purchase the furniture and decor from your design. Speaker placement and reflections from nearby walls. Speakerstudio monitor placement secrets room setup 101. Up to 80% off save big and help support covid19 relief. If you are stuck in a square room, this is the second cardas placement option. I could see how this placement would perhaps a flat frequency response, but probably wouldnt do a lot for bass reinforcement.
Mistakes that will compete with your stereo imaging, sound stage definition and. At the end of this journey is a realization that as important as you thought the room was is the discovery that the room has a huge impact on the final sound and all the great gear in the world isnt going to overcome the wrong room. In this image, the subwoofer is placed exactly at the null point for the 2 nd axial mode related to width, and. So my answer to your original question is that i dont have a cardas room but can testify that custom audio rooms are awesome and well worth the. I used the master set theory as well as the cardas room setup and speaker placement guide. What are the distances from rear wall, side wall, etc. These ratios are for placing speakers in a room which is longer than it is wide and using the long portion of the room for front to back placement. All excited, i carried them home from the shop and. Square room speaker placement speaker placement in a square room is insane. The usb dongle is needed to activate the software in your computer. The more expensive ways involve the purchase of software packages or even.
Cardas speaker placement audiogon discussion forum. Cardas speaker placement speakers canuck audio mart. Guess poppop will figure it out by ear andor with an inexpensive mic and software. Do it the way they say to do it, and youll put them in the best possible part of the room.
Take note that while these are meant for pairs of stereo speakers, they can also apply to multichannel speaker systems. Is there a generic online guide or rule of thumb for placing speakers in a room. This guide, written by george cardas, provides insight into. The time has come for me to set up my stereo in my new living room and i dont know where the correct places are to put the speakers and subwoofer.
I checked out the cardas formulas, but it places my speakers beyond the boundaries of what is possible in a nondedicated room, so i more or less wrote off the cardas method. A free online room design application is a great way to quickly design a room or plan a room remodel. Getting the right acoustics for your listening room by rives august 24, 2004. Most of us can have an instant 33% improvment in our audio systems performance without spending a dime. Start with finding the right placement for your listening seat and for your speakers. It works very well and i get good measured results. Tightening up the placement eliminated the blurring. Kef ls 50 placement help steve hoffman music forums. One is a good back wall behind the speakers to retain the kinetic. You can even plan a design for every room in your home, all right from your computer without having to know anything about home design software. Get started on your room design today with this easytouse room planner. Use the golden ratio to get the best sound from your loudspeakers in any rectangular sized room very precise speaker placement can open up a whole new dimension in listening, so i will outline the system that is becoming the standard of the industry. As it is, the tweeters are 51 out from the back wall, and the cardas method has them significantly further into the room i think.
A collection of questions weve received over the years about setting up a system. Cardas, your website is a pleasure, most recently the room setup online calculator. Just click on the link for your particular roomtype, and then go from there. Very precise speaker placement can open up a whole new dimension in listening, so i will outline the system that is becoming the standard of the industry. The atlasied speaker placement tool is designed to make it easy to select the proper positioning of speakers in a given room. See how our pieces will look in your home with the easytouse room designer tool. Weve already covered subwoofer placement, so this article will focus on the loudspeaker channels. Cardas, im thinking of installing your caps as couplers in my rebuilt harman kardon citation 2. You may use any unit of measure feet, inches, meters, centimeters but all measurements must be numbers only. Then input the room length, width, and ceiling height. The following distances should be used for speaker setup. Just had a small question regarding the golden trapagon room. There are some different approach to handle room acoustics.
In my search, the big three methodologies that came up again and again were. It would depend on the size of the room, but in general they would be placed on the narrow end of the room at the room width divided by 18 x 2 and room width divided by 8 from the rear wall and each other. While not a perfect solution by any stretch, it does seem to always give me a good starting placement for speakers to begin my listening in a new room or setup. You may use any unit of measure feet, inches, meters, centimeters but all measurements must be numbers only and use the same unit of measure. This guide includes room setup designs, speaker placement calculators and other resources for rectangular rooms, square rooms, nearfield listening positions and more. There is plenty of room tuning software available that can analyze your room dimensions and identify where the most troublesome modes are likely to occur, but simply putting your monitors on stands and playing some music through them is an easy way to figure out what you are dealing with. The cardas method puts your speakers very close together.
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