Key posts: Soffit mounting?

Substantial posts by Ethan Winer, who started the thread, and by the forum’s most active contributors. 36 of 224 posts are listed.

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Ethan Winer, 23 February 2003John, I know this has probably been discussed to death elsewhere, but I want your opinion for an Acoustics FAQ I'm preparing. Years ago when I built a pro studio, our…
John Sayers, 24 February 2003Well as you know I always recommend soffit mounting Why? because I've heard it work so many times. I've had clients who know their speakers really well and when they…
John Sayers, 24 February 2003Ethan - who exactly says otherwise?? The only major studios that I've seen that Don't soffit mount are the mastering suites and they use different speakers like Duntecs…
John Sayers, 9 March 2003Yes but you splay the walls with more angle, i.e. at 22.5 degrees as opposed to 12. I find it helps where you have a small room and the 60 degrees doesn't give you much…

barefoot, 7 April 2003From a studio design perspective the advantages of soffit mounting are many and frankly obvious , but let me just also chime in from a loudspeaker design perspective.…
John Sayers, 28 November 2006Back in the early days to test a speaker they would bury it in the ground so the front face was level with the ground. They'd then hang a mike over it a measure the…

gullfo, 30 September 2007its not even good english :-) xspace has it correct - i meant to say "flattening" the speaker angle may be needed, or making it "steeper" - all depends on how well the…
gullfo, 13 June 2008you want the acoustic center of the monitor to be aimed at the listening position. if the baffle mounted speaker is in the right position, then you don't need to angle…

Soundman2020, 9 September 2008I love this place! This is exactly what I needed to know for my tiny control-room design. I've been desperately trying to figure out how on earth to keep my head at the…
John Sayers, 16 September 2008sorry - I forgot to get back to you. It's an interesting question - this is how I see it. the aim is to have a standard so everyone works with a similar axis to the…
AVare, 13 December 2008Please explain. Nearfield/farfield refers to distances where the room ambience is greater than the direct sound. Using as a hypothetical example a 12x15x8' room treated…
Soundman2020, 13 December 2008I guess it all depends on what your definition of "near" field is. I've seen different definitions from different speaker manufacturers, and there doesn't seem to be a…
AVare, 13 December 2008Lots of re arranging in quotes. the original quoted text is in the post immediately above. That is confusing acoustics with advertising. A "mid field" monitor is…
AVare, 14 December 2008Thanks for the (good) lengthy explanation of your thought process. Yes. You have the resources here and at other websites to build a first class control room. Read and…

Soundman2020, 15 December 2008It is GREAT André! I actually do a fair amount of sound reinforcement as well, running live sound for events, so that JBL document is really useful. And yeah, I sure do…
Soundman2020, 22 December 2008Thanks again, Andre! I found, downloaded, and read that second part. I'm curious about their recommendations for room EQ, on page 6-17, graph 6-17 "B". Why would you…
AVare, 22 December 2008The section is dealing with the obsolete method of using a RTA type measurement tool and compensating for the reverberant field which is dominated by the power response…
Soundman2020, 25 December 2008Finally a chance to try them out! They sound pretty good, actually. Not totally what I expected, but that might be because I have them sitting on top of cardboard boxes…
Soundman2020, 16 January 2009I'm still learning about soffits, Lars, but from what I get so far, the soffit panel acts as an infinite baffle. Obviously, truly "infinite" is impossible, but as long…
giles117, 6 August 2009What is Superchunk? Edit: Never-mind, all this NEW terminology for OLD things. Corner built soffits combined with angled Slat Resonators provide the purpose of a…

giles117, 1 September 2009As an addendum. 6.5 years ago I showed up wanting to soffit mount my mackies. (Find the thread in speaker) I was told it was a BAD idea, DONT do it. The Manufacturer…
Soundman2020, 18 February 2010Some thoughts, Real quick: 1) Please read the stickies on this forum. 2) Start your own thread, instead of hijacking someone else's. 3) Ouch! You'll have to fix those…

Soundman2020, 7 November 2010I haven't doe the final soffits yet, but I have played around a bit with simulating them (various bits of wood), and I'm happy with the results so far. I'm confident…
Soundman2020, 24 May 2012:) The front panel of the soffit should be as large as you can possibly make it: Floor to ceiling and as wide as will fit across the diagonal. It is trying to be an…
Soundman2020, 29 May 2012All fine, except for the second shelf: skip that. Not needed. The entire top section is one single cavity, right up to the lid, and all of it is filled with all your…

Soundman2020, 8 December 2012Yep, soffit mount and flush mount is the same thing. "Flush mount" is actually more correct, technically, but "soffit mount" seems to have become the de-facto standard…
Soundman2020, 8 December 2012Exactly. And that is what crossover's do. Theoretically it should be shelving, but in practice for small speakers you can just implement it as a high pass (low cut) with…
Soundman2020, 11 December 2012Not really, no. Active monitors are popular (I think) because they are "all in one". You don't need a separate amplifier, equalizer, crossover, delay, etc. Everything…
Soundman2020, 11 December 2012Exactly! And since you have now corrected the 6 dB power imbalance with the soffit, you no longer need the electronic correction. The manufacturer had to design that…
Soundman2020, 7 January 2014Not contradictions, really. More of "ignorance", I'd say. Taking your points in reverse order: Right! The entire point of soffit mounting is to convert the small front…

Soundman2020, 30 March 2015John's soffits do not go all the way to the floor. There's a gap of at least 12 inches at the bottom, to allow sound to enter the area where the hangers are. But…
Soundman2020, 31 March 2015Pretty much. And also for "checking the mix" on those big wonderful boomy things that sound so cool when turned up to 11. But they generally aren't used for making mix…
Soundman2020, 29 February 2016It does not need to be sealed, and indeed it cannot be sealed due to the need for ventilation, but it is still a good idea to have a massive, rigid partition between the…
Soundman2020, 9 August 2017Hi Karim, and Welcome! :) You could do that if you wanted to, yes. It wouldn't look so neat as with John's system, but it would still work OK acoustically. That's…
Soundman2020, 7 February 2019There is ALWAYS a complete inner-leaf and a complete outer-leaf. It's a matter of perspective: If you stand in the control room, looking towards the live room, then…
Soundman2020, 29 March 2019Which schematic are you referring to? The thread is 15 pages long, with over 200 posts in it... Are you referring to John's diagram on page 1? If so, I'm not sure what…