How granular is the 25/50% room mode "rule"
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2022 4:04 am
I've read a lot about how you should ideally avoid having your listening position at the 25% or 50% point in a room because that's where room modes tend to be the most pernicious. I'm sure if varies from room to room, but as a general rule, how far away from 25/50% do you need to be to be out of these most problematic areas? Is 26% or 49% okay? Or does it need to be more like 30% or 45%?
I know there's also the general rule (or suggestion) about trying to have a listening position at 38%, but given all the particularities of my room and other variables, I'm not going to get close to that. The positioning that is going to work best is likely to be somewhere between 23% and 26%, so I'm trying to figure out if 26% is basically just as bad as 25%, or if it actually makes a meaningful improvement to move from, for example, 25% to 26% (or 24%), theoretically speaking, of course.
I know there's also the general rule (or suggestion) about trying to have a listening position at 38%, but given all the particularities of my room and other variables, I'm not going to get close to that. The positioning that is going to work best is likely to be somewhere between 23% and 26%, so I'm trying to figure out if 26% is basically just as bad as 25%, or if it actually makes a meaningful improvement to move from, for example, 25% to 26% (or 24%), theoretically speaking, of course.