As a live sound engineer working in loads of different rooms, it's great to hear someone in the hi-fi-world talk about the importance of room acoustics! These are the problems we fight every day. The frequency response can be altered a great amount using an EQ, but the reverb in a room has to be treated physically in order to get an awesome listening experience.
@presc13nt
Жыл бұрын
Omg, finally a video again starting with Jana's voice 🫠 Aaaand Talk Talk in the video !! Awesome 👍🏻😁
@tomhirschel8524
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Portugal. Keep on rocking in the free world! One Pastel de nata on each loudspeaker improves the sound too !
@soupistasty5
Жыл бұрын
What an informative & unique opportunity to measure all of these sound parameters! Not all of us get the chance to upend our lives (for better or for worse) and change our entire listening space. In particular, I enjoyed the graphs on the RT60s of your new space & anticipate the changes that acoustic treatment will make 💓
@Kah0ona
Жыл бұрын
I love this. Making a new listening room from scratch is so fun to follow along. Looking forward to the 'after' and hopefully some shots of the installation
@buffal0bilious
Жыл бұрын
Black and white tile with a green rug is something I haven't seen before, and I wish I had. I love the way it looks. Congratulations on the new space!
@andreasboe4509
Жыл бұрын
Great idea. Can't wait for the results of the room treatment.
@AudioVisual82
Жыл бұрын
good to know, we'll have you back in berlin in the summer.
@fRESHd4X
Жыл бұрын
Sometimes I wish KZitem would allow me to give more than one thumbs up to a video. This video is one of them. I love your openness about your imperfect room and how you are going to tackle the problem. Fingers crossed.
@salreda7470
Жыл бұрын
Great video glad your feeling better. I can hear the difference when I swap out my paintings for different size ones. Although the crows are still outside make all kinds of sounds still.
@RobWhittlestone
Жыл бұрын
Lisbon is a nice choice. Portuguese are great people: relaxed, cultivated, knowledgeable, friendly, uncomplicated & great at languages. And the food and wine are great too. I can relate to using hi-fi in a tiled room. Curtains, carpets and tapestry can all help, as well as cloth furniture and dedicated hifi sound sinks. Good luck! All the best, Rob in Switzerland
@yupanquid5538
Жыл бұрын
Wait, what? 2mts tall?!?! I did not imagine you were that tall. Great video as always, John
@Bruno-Melo
Жыл бұрын
Oh my, that is a lively room, just like mine 😂. I also live in Lisbon and I also have tiles on my floor so it’s going to be interesting to see how you’ll deal with that. Maybe I’ll grab some ideas from your solution. Welcome to Lisboa. Keep up the excellent work.
@cillyede
Жыл бұрын
Alles Gute in dieser wunderschönen und aufregenden Stadt. ❤
@izavial
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Portugal (again)! I've lived here since 1996, I think you are just a tad optimistic about it being quite chilly for just 4-6 weeks - from late Dec to mid March its often quite fresh and not warm except for the odd days and in the middle of the day. Its a great city - enjoy!
@alexanderstefanov6474
Жыл бұрын
@@razisn I think the problem is the lack of insulation in Greece, if the buildings had good insulation you'd only need heating about 2 months
@EricIzabelle
Жыл бұрын
As the french saying goes, a man with two houses loses his mind (qui a deux maisons perd la raison). Good luck trying to stay sane between two houses, especially in two different countries. Cheers!
@leemartin2978
Жыл бұрын
Lisbon is a fantastic city to explore . So much to see and so atmospheric in the warmer months. Easy links to other beautiful cities like Porto and areas of the Algarve . Sounds like a lovely life balance and great for the viewers to see how you develop this listening environment
@samanlashkari1702
Жыл бұрын
One of your best videos ever. Thank you. Hope Lisbon offers what you expect of it and more.
@helderpereira715
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Portugal! Portugal in the winter for you reminds me of the summers I spent in Swindon, Wiltshire, England…. hot days in buildings not prepared to deal with any heat waves.
@paulcomeau6
Жыл бұрын
Could not agree more John on acoustical impact of the room! Looking forward to the new Vicoustic treatment sound. Great bang-for-the buck audio investment. Thanks again for the great videos.
@pablofagoaga3474
Жыл бұрын
John. Two meters tall…. What an unexpected distraction from every other thing you said. Great video
@ANTONIOCAMPOSNEVES
Жыл бұрын
Darko, welcome to my beautiful country and city, welcome to Lisboa
@JohnRussellHodge_progtwit
Жыл бұрын
This is one of your best videos, John. I love the macro approach to the issue of room influence and the fact that you have taken the opportunity of the move to confront what we all go through when moving house. I also love the details and imagery that you deliver so easily... sound "snookering" around the room is a perfect image for reverberation. You are looking well so let's hope the Portugal/Germany splitlife works for you for a long time to come.
@bsbabcock
Жыл бұрын
Good opportunity to see the spectral decay of the room. Waterfall plot. You’ll see that reverb over the frequency bandwidth over time to show all that “bouncing” from walls to listening position. That’ll be the most telling before/after graph in my opinion when you treat the room. Looks like a lovely space though. Lots of potential for sure. Will take a boat load of absorption panels, low frequency absorption (bass traps) etc to tame that beast.
@manuelp6785
Жыл бұрын
Moving forward pls share with your community the dealers and record shops in Lisbon that you get acquainted with. I know them all but it will be interesting to have your perspective. Enjoy the city. Don’t worry about the cold and damp weather , March is just around the corner…
@nunofernandes4501
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Portugal, John!
@bryantaylor2946
Жыл бұрын
John, you seem more relaxed and full of energy!
@marcgoldstein2957
Жыл бұрын
TWO METERS TALL! Specs we can believe with our own eyes!
@dagreatstoney.5869
Жыл бұрын
Best of luck in Lisboa, I lived their in the 90ies , beautiful place, great people, enjoy 👍
@GPintoFerrao
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to my country and the city where I was born. I am very happy for your choice and it is possible that we will meet around there. Welcome once more
@Fontsman
Жыл бұрын
Lisbon is a fantastic city. Probably much cheaper too! Plus you'll keep in shape yomping up those hills!
@rcrdsntsslv
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Lisbon! We're happy to have you :)
@318ishonk
Жыл бұрын
A great opportunity to get a grasp of how much sound in a room changes with sound treatment. Looking forward to this John!
@derekdenyer5546
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Lisbon, I love it here, hope you will too.
@myhrlfc
Жыл бұрын
Excellent video, found it super interesting. Can't wait for the follow up. Keep up the good work John 👍👍
@audiotakebyscho1881
Жыл бұрын
Love the channel and your take on things. Also, and more importantly, very glad to see you are getting better!
@hugolopes7654
Жыл бұрын
Welcome, I'm sure you will be very happy in Lisbon. Wish you all the best for this new journey!
@pedromanuelsilvasantos1303
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Lisboa 🖐️ good surprise!!! 😀
@andrewstacey246
Жыл бұрын
John, you just need some of those plants you talked about in a video about 10 months ago. Surely they will sort your frequency and reverb problems out😉
@joaocordeiro5788
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Portugal, hope you get better.
@bobpachner7528
Жыл бұрын
Since you now live in the home country of Vicoustic and Artnovion the acoustic treatment install should be interesting. And, of course, Innuos is based there too, up near Porto. Good luck with your new space. And your health too!🤞😃
@willblomker1393
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for using the move as an opportunity for a room acoustics/treatment course. I’m learning a lot! Also, as someone in Brooklyn on a street with seemingly constant jackhammers, idling trucks, airplanes, crying babies and/or exuberant street conversations let us know how that goes for you there! Haha Earplugs can be a man’s best friend.
@GBarros7
Жыл бұрын
How interesting how I watch your videos for years and now to see that you are so close, in my city. Great choice for a place to live. Enjoy Lisbon. Enjoy Portugal.
@Rustyzeroo
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Portugal!
@KeithHeinrich
Жыл бұрын
At last, the subject not touched on by many. Good job and looking forward to what is learned in your situation and then what we can all take away from that.
@ricardokintas7125
Жыл бұрын
Possibly you need some curtains, and some more furniture...and some art paintings on the wall
@danwheetman6914
Жыл бұрын
Great opportunity. Thanks
@KevBest
Жыл бұрын
Love the astro turf John, best of luck with the new place
@Dpace111
Жыл бұрын
Such an informative video! Thanks John. This further justifies my preference to chase a high quality sound via headphones as opposed to loudspeakers
@sixergixer
Жыл бұрын
Interesting, fun, and fascinating exploration, John. Thanks for bringing us along!
@Desmotube100
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to my country Darko. I would be glad to meet you in person one of these days to have an expresso with you. Cheers.
@johantheron4282
Жыл бұрын
I have heard a large bookcase filled with real paper books also dampens the reflections.
@KM-wl1tp
Жыл бұрын
All this just made me want to get my headphones out! 🤣
@finnroohomebrewing
Жыл бұрын
Hahaha 🤣
@geoffreyblofeld9783
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Portugal. Really interesting video. Come down to the Algarve to hear the daily morning chorus of petrol-driven leaf blowers in the gardens 😂 That trumps idling cars and barking dogs anytime!!
@paulojoaquim2723
Жыл бұрын
Hi John , welcome to my city...enjoy.
@thewaygokid3135
Жыл бұрын
Went to Portugal last fall. Beautiful country! Glad you can spend time in a more favorable climate for part of the year.
@pmpgonzalez
Жыл бұрын
Can’t believe you’re in my city! Hope we can meet, sometime. Have a cup of coffee, I’ll give you a few cool hints on the city, you’ll give me hifi advice 😂😂
@dougcampbell2814
Жыл бұрын
Great...now I have to move my system from the short wall to the long wall in my room. Thanks a lot, John. :) I hope you enjoy your new place in Lisbon!
@RbNetEngr
Жыл бұрын
This was a great video! You did a great job of explaining room reverberation (which I always incorrectly called ‘echo’) but you also quantified it with your room measurements. For me, this video was a great quick study in room acoustics. I look forward to seeing your updates on results after acoustic correction of the room.
@franciscojosecastanedojord3457
Жыл бұрын
With my deepest respect, I venture to recommend you to read and study a good book on the Physics of Sound. It will answer many, if not all, questions you have on how sound behaves the way it does and how to change the way it responds to, among other things, different surfaces. And as far as I know, the echo of a room can not be "fixed" using electronic or digital equipment. FWIW, I love your videos. Cheers!
@yellow_noise3
Жыл бұрын
in short. John! you rock!
@warfam_clan6933
Жыл бұрын
Hi John, new room looks great. Love the stair access at the back of the room. Question for you, although it's quite off topic, will you be making a trip to the UK for the Bristol HIFI show?
@carlosdiniz339
Жыл бұрын
Bem vindo a Portugal! enjoy
@arturcarvalho66
Жыл бұрын
Nice to have you back in Lisbon again! Welcome John.
@Harry-IV
Жыл бұрын
Nice to see you have to start from scratch so I can learn something. I am currently starting with the acoustics in my home office: 4x3 meter. I planned on building some sound panels with rockwool.
@NalinKhurb
Жыл бұрын
Awesome, very excited to see what comes after the room treatment. It’s a lovely house you got here, I like the layout
@rasardo1
Жыл бұрын
John, enjoy Lisboa and visit Portugal, when you can. Even thought it's a small country, Portugal has a lot to offer, from north to south. You won't regret, I'm sure :)
@great100m
Жыл бұрын
A very interesting video. I like the incremental change approach of your technique. A side note, at first I found the audio in this video annoying since the echo (referb) was evident but after a few minutes apparently my brain adjusted to what I was hearing and the effect was not as bothersome.
@skip1835
Жыл бұрын
This is an excellent Video Darko - - way more insightful than I imagined as I began to watch it - - loved the measurements that give a starting & (dare I say) objective bass line to work from.
@_AJH_
Жыл бұрын
Wish I could push the like button more than once. I'm very excited about the upcoming videos in this series! Glad I'm a member!
@GlennGhouled
Жыл бұрын
holy cow the acoustic room treatment rendering looks cool. can't wait for the video
@honestmanmusic
Жыл бұрын
This was a great video, and has been the reason I've been subscribed for a while. Excited to learn about the DIRAC room correction software, frequency response changes w/ acoustic treatments, and what this means going forward!
@BrunoAlmeidaAkaRonin
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Portugal/Lisboa ! 🔊🎵🎶
@eleventhvolume9362
Жыл бұрын
You're living the dream, moving between Lisbon and Berlin seasonally. My first visit to Lisbon was for a Raster Noton festival to see the likes of snd, Alva Noto and Bytone. Please say hello to the spirits of Jose Saramago and Fernando Pessoa for me.
@rosswarren436
Жыл бұрын
Glad to know all your room treatment efforts in Berlin won't be lost. Good luck taming the room in Lisbon. Maybe get a class-A tube amp to heat your room (just kidding). Enjoy your time there.
@pedrobandeira3575
Жыл бұрын
Hi John, hope you have a great time in Lisbon, it is a beautiful city. Take some extra time to get to know Portugal and the Portuguese people though, I guarantee you will not regret it.
@marclemieux9387
Жыл бұрын
So looking forward to see/hear the results from the 2 room correction programs!
@tbyrchr
Жыл бұрын
Sitting here in chilly Berlin and I just had the feeling you’d have gone to Portugal! We’re getting 12C and sun next week, yay. All the best
@ptbfrch
Жыл бұрын
Hope the new digs suit you well! As always, I keep looking forward to your excellent content!
@akilansakthi3250
Жыл бұрын
Great Video! Looking forward to the one with A500 room correction. I am currently running the Forward MidRange MT on A500 and I notice a drastic change in sound after I added a rug and couch(in a bad way. Lost Bass). I liked it better when the living space was almost empty. Planning to test the stock MT and see how it sounds next.
@weisstdudochnicht1
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Portugal 🇵🇹 After 3y in Portugal, I tend to prefer for the months of Dec-Jan to go to either a warm country like Asia, or a country with proper heating and good insulation like Switzerland, or Germany… Feb-Nov is nice though - just enjoyed the sun this week. 😊
@audibleeleganceinc
Жыл бұрын
Well, Good Sir, I am confident that you will discover new joys and challenges in new room. The best of them can make a great sound in any room and I trust you are amongst them. It always amazed me how many manufacturers at shows put up a bad sound and then simply dismissed their lack of skills on the room they were in. Yet, year after year, a little manufacturer consistently put up a good to great sound, year after year for 40 years. Tells you something, I think.
@towertone
Жыл бұрын
Yes, great in-depth video and the room correction software you discussed at the end of the video was EXACTLY what I was wondering about when you got to that point (I have Dirac on my NADs....ok, that doesn't sound right but). Can't wait to see the results both before and after the room treatments.
@tobiaswinter1358
Жыл бұрын
Great to see you healthy and happy again!
@PhillioDoede
Жыл бұрын
This is pretty awesome and timely as I have a similar size and shaped room (TV is in about the same location also) that I have been living with for about 2-3 years. Right now from an acoustic perspective the font and rear wall are basically untreated bare walls. I recently purchased a mixture of diffusion panels (similar to what you have in Berlin) for the rear wall and side wall, a quadratic diffuser for the rear, and a few absorption panels for the front between the the TV and speakers. Before I install it though I wanted to measure the room for a before and after and knew I wanted more than just the response so RT60 is what I'm looking for thanks!
@kaite8371
Жыл бұрын
To get down with RT 60, it's about how much treatment you use. Not where the panels sit. Many users have built kind of ceiling sails.
@stevenp.sparks2953
Жыл бұрын
Even though I haven't yet watched the vid, I went ahead and clicked "Like" because I'm really happy for you after all of your recent medical trauma. Thanks for the vids, John, and Congratulations on the new home & surroundings! Sparks in Daytona
@yanivshef
Жыл бұрын
In my personal experience a rug make a noticeable improvement, it captured the low extension and reverberation. Beautiful floor and home as much as I can see😊. Good luck LeBron
@Obi_1_Shinobi_
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Portugal, hope u have a great time here!
@slam854
Жыл бұрын
The Zu are very efficient speakers. Zu factory is about 50 miles from me. Glad to hear from you again.
@aceofspades6667
Жыл бұрын
Same Zu is 40 away as is tekton and Wilson is about 20 min and spatial lab acoustics about 25 min. Lots of hifi in UT
@audio-arte
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Portugal.
@delarageaz
Жыл бұрын
oh you're a big boiiii. congrats on the new place i absolutely love the floor.
@mrfrosty3
Жыл бұрын
I believe the Portuguese have some cork for your room treatment.
@nualpiga9035
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Portugal John!
@rogeriopauloaleluiasilva2688
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Portugal 👍
@MrCaribeiro
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Portugal! Hope you enjoy!
@russellparker4568
Жыл бұрын
Ive starting positioning my speakers using measurements, had a lot of success setting up this way. Absorption behind the listening position and side walls helped the mid treble massively in my room.
@jimgardner5129
Жыл бұрын
Well, it looks like you have a lot of fun ahead of you. :) BTW, those tiles are so beautiful with that 60's motif. A shame they're messing with you. Looking forward to see what you do with the place.
@cinqiwc
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for yet another great video. Enjoy Portugal! What a huge coincidence, I just listened to that exact Talk Talk album before watching your video and yesterday ai placed acoustic panels on my rear wall. My RT60 went down a few tenth from 400 Hz upwardd but I still have some work to do. I’m looking forward to your next video’s, keep up the good work and enjoy the music 👍
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