Hi
@gene, hi @Mathew J Poes,
i would like to refer to the youtube video about optimizing small rooms:
I have here in our living room exactly the scenario, that Matt described (left side windows to the garden / right side open "L" shape to the kitchen).
Since 2016 i did step by step to raise the theatre and now more or less the final item went in, the curtain to the window side. Not only for the acoustics but at least as much to maximize the joy watching the projection screen with my JVC X7900 projector
And it works marvelous, having the complete left side darkened watching a movie is real pleasure... And that of course means, that it is always completely closed while watching movies.
I expected of course, that with the courtain
a) the acousting characteristic of the room changed significantly
b) that i have to take measures against it by re-calibrating my AVR / speaker setup with REW
What i observed then exactly as Matt said in the video, i got an audible mis-balance between right and left speaker side in presence and also a bit sound characteristic. Due to the curtain and the reduced reflections, the left speakers seemed to get a lot more present as before (of course having the speaker level at the main seat perfectly aligned with REW before WITH curtain closed).
And then i remembered a discussion with the people from Patrick Schappert from Grobi, telling me that acousting treatment always brings a reduction in auditory spaciousness and an increase of focus the the speaker near to the treatment.
So, for a first quick countermeasure, i increased the speaker levels of FR, SR and SBR while listing to some well known music step by step until the presence of left and right side was equalized. But that ended up in 2,5 dB more level of these 3 speakers compared to left side FL, SL and SBL.
How would you see it? As i cannot really play with the position of the curtain (always completely closed on watching movies) and no presets in my SR7010 to change between situations, do you think, that increasing the levels for the right side of the room was a good measure? Of would you recommend to do something different?
Wish you all the best for 2020 and would be happy to read your feedback, Holger