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In Reply to: Re: First Reflection Point Formula posted by clio09 on May 14, 2006 at 14:21:59:
If the reflection point is in the middle of an archway, there's no reflection there so theoretically there's no need to use a panel at that point. The sound passes through the archway and doesn't get reflected till it hits the next wall. You could calculate the point on that wall but unless that wall is very close to the archway (say only a hallway on the other side of the arch), the wall of your room is going to block that reflection for you.Archways can be a little tricky, however, and you do have reflections from the room on the other side that will be difracted around the edges of the archway as they re-enter your room. You may find that placing a free standing panel so it covers the edge of the archway, overlapping a bit into the archway itself and covering a bit of the adjacent wall as well, may help things a bit. I think only experimenting will tell you whether or not you'll get some advantage.
I have an archway beside my right speaker. The reflection point isn't in the archway but on the wall towards me. I find that covering the edge of the archway with the panel helps a bit in my room, but the geometries are different to your room and it's possible that I'm actually getting a bit of reflection from the wall on the other side of the hallway as well as the reflection from the wall inside the room. I haven't tried calculating a reflection point for the hall wall, but ensuring the panel covers about a foot of the archway certainly does help a bit.
If you note in Ethan's diagram, he places the reflection point around the middle of the panel and when I do that with my reflection point, my panel just covers a little of the archway. I experimented a little with moving the panel sideways in both directions and discovered that moving it fractionally towards the speaker so that it covered a bit more of the archway was better. Actually, if the panel is spaced out a bit from the wall as mine are, the point at which the reflection path meets the panel will be a bit closer towards the speaker than the reflection point on the wall is, so what I've done is just centred the panel on the reflection path a bit more.
If you're using panels on both sides, don't have them exactly opposite each other. Move one a couple of inches or so towards the speaker and the other a couple of inches towards you. You'll get a bit more benefit from doing that than having them exactly opposite each other. Varying height an inch or 2 should also help a little bit if you can.
David Aiken
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