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I saw where alienware and NEC have these new monitors and are showing
them off at CES. Personally I can't wait to give one a test drive
myself. Has anyone seen one up close? Seems like it would be cool to
have in my home studio..

if you haven't seen it, this is what i'm talking about
a href='http://pressthat.com/story.php?
title=Cool_Curved_Wrap_Around_Monitor_from_CES'http://pressthat.com/
story.php?title=Cool_Curved_Wrap_Around_Monitor_fr om_CES/a

[Scott Dorsey]

wrote:
I saw where alienware and NEC have these new monitors and are showing
them off at CES. Personally I can't wait to give one a test drive
myself. Has anyone seen one up close? Seems like it would be cool to
have in my home studio..

Looks like an acoustic disaster to me. It's bad enough having big flat
sound reflectors sitting right up in front of you... NOW you want to put
a curved thing that will reflect all sound to a single point?

Just sticking flat video monitors in front of your face is a whole lot
worse acoustically than having a console in front of you with a surface
pointed toward the ceiling. And the console is a nightmare of reflections
as it is.
--scott

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Chris Whealy]

wrote:
I saw where alienware and NEC have these new monitors and are showing
them off at CES. Personally I can't wait to give one a test drive
myself. Has anyone seen one up close? Seems like it would be cool to
have in my home studio..

if you haven't seen it, this is what i'm talking about
a href='http://pressthat.com/story.php?
title=Cool_Curved_Wrap_Around_Monitor_from_CES'http://pressthat.com/
story.php?title=Cool_Curved_Wrap_Around_Monitor_fr om_CES/a

Looks like its aimed at the gaming market. Any sound hitting the
concave face of that screen will be focussed back to a point - somewhere
where you will not want to be sitting!

Chris W

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The voice of ignorance speaks loud and long,
But the words of the wise are quiet and few.
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[straightnut]

On Jan 10, 9:50*am, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
And the console is a nightmare of reflections
as it is.

I would guess that large consoles couldn't be helped much, but for
small ones that are well within the width of the speakers, how about
side panels high enough to block some of the sound before arriving at
the console? Or what about designing steeply angled consoles or
steeply angles tables for consoles, so the reflections end up more in
your lap than in your ears?

Jeff

[Scott Dorsey]

straightnut wrote:
On Jan 10, 9:50=A0am, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
And the console is a nightmare of reflections
as it is.

I would guess that large consoles couldn't be helped much, but for
small ones that are well within the width of the speakers, how about
side panels high enough to block some of the sound before arriving at
the console? Or what about designing steeply angled consoles or
steeply angles tables for consoles, so the reflections end up more in
your lap than in your ears?

Yup, all of these have been done, and they all help. Another thing is
to use speakers with very narrow vertical dispersion, which at least
helps keep high frequency slap off the console anyway.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."