Hey all,
So I decided to splurge and replace the crap computer speakers I’ve been using for a while now with some truly kick ass monitors – the Focal Alpha 65s. Just spent two hours in front of a wall of monitors at B&H here in NYC and these things blew away everything – Rokits, Yamaha, JBL, Behringers, even the Adam I heard. Really happy to get them set up.
The only thing I’ve been told is that having speakers that can push the kind of sound the 65s can, I need to “set up” my room to handle them or else it’ll turn into a boomy mess. This is my bedroom. It isn’t particularly big (Manhattan living), and I don’t have the luxury of being able to put them a good distance back and away from me like they would be in a studio monitoring situation. They’ll be close to me, on stands. My room is in an old building, with mostly bare walls and two windows. Hardwood floors.
I don’t have the speakers here yet – they have to ship them to me – but just to get ahead of any potential problems, do any of you familiar with acoustics and sound / space stuff foresee an issue here? I can’t imagine I’ll bump the hell out of them very often – they get really loud and I do have neighbors. Is this something I really need to be aware of, or have I just been reading too many audiophile studio monitoring forums?
Cheers,
Q
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