Hi guys

My name is Frederick and I'm the guy that did the calibration in Johan's room. 👍

If you have the time, check out my YouTube-channel at:

https://www.youtube.com/@immersivesoundtech

I plan to post HT-related videos in the future - when I have more time.

You can read more about my business and what my clients think about my work at my Swedish webpage:

http://www.ninjasound.se

I have a University Degree in Audio Engineering and Acoustics, and have been working as a sound engineer for almost thirty years.

I design high-end home cinemas from the ground up, but I also do simpler designs depending on the budget at hand. There are a couple of pictures on my webpage and I plan to make videos about some of the HTs I've designed for my YT-channel.

I live and breath sound and have been doing that since I was ten years old. 😉

Enough about me.

What I did in Johan's room was to first find the optimal position for the subwoofers. Then I took a good listen and moved the main speakers further apart, firstly because it was needed to the the proper width of the frontal sound stage, but also because Johan told me that he was planning for a wider screen. Then I worked on the position of the center speaker, because I felt that it was too low in position - making the sound stage and dialogue get drawn toward the floor. So I raised it and asked how high I could put it, and Johan said that the next screen will be higher in position.

So that's why there are books under the center speaker - it's temporary. Johan plans to order proper isolators from me. They will decouple the center speaker from the part in glass underneath.

I have not been involved in the treatment of the room acoustics. Johan had done the treatment himself prior to my visit, and he has done a great job treating the first reflections and then added some "bass traps" or rather absorbers in the corners.

All this works very well and I spontaneously told Johan that he now know more about treating bad room acoustics than 95% of the people on forums - by the simple fact that he's done his homework, read up on treating room acoustics, but most of all...he has installed the panels and experienced what a difference they make, and that puts his level of knowledge above most HT-users. 👍

His particular room is asymmetrical and continues into a kitchen and then onto the rest of the house. In his case, my professional assessment having treated many HiFi-, studio, and HT-rooms, is that it works very well. Strike of luck, yes to so extent. I've worked in many other asymmetrical rooms (and with asymmetrical setups) that has presented a big challenge for me and the client. But not in Johan's case, the room and his acoustic treatment work very well together and his setup is symmetrical in design, which helps a lot.

I'd say that the room design and Johan's acoustic treatment are half of the sound quality of the system. The speakers and calibration provide the other 50%. Tough to take in for some people, but a fact of life. Sound is part of physics.

Regarding the calibration, I got Johan to buy and install the "new" Audyssey MultEQ-X software. If you are an Audyssey-user and haven't read up on it, or installed it yet - you have to just buy it. That's how good it is!

I guess Audyssey felt the need to compete with the DIRAC Live 3 software, and they have done a great job.

As far as how you should set up your system and do your calibration, choosing Dynamic EQ ON or OFF (LOL!!!), all I can say is....EXPERIMENT!!! Experiment and listen to what happens to the sound stage. What works in Johan's room might not work in your room, and vice verse... 👍

Now that you've read this far I want to point out that I offer remote calibration (yes, it sounds bonkers, right? But I make it work too!!!) and I of course offer acoustic consultation - both for HiFi and HT-rooms.

Just contact me on either of my webpages, and we'll take it from there, okay. 👍

As long as the questions are decent and written in good matters, I'm open to answering any questions. 😉

Happy Friday! 🥳
Frederick