Setup and tune your speakers for a good listening environment.
                     Tune your Speakers 
for a good listning 
environment 
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This is one of the most important aspects of audio 
engineering, setting up and tuning your monitors for a 
room.
To understand the concepts of this post you will 
need to understand the basics of Acoustics like Standing 
Waves, Nodes and Antinodes, Sound Reflection, Diffusion, 
and Absorption.
Here are some simple steps to understand this.
1. Understand your 
Speaker
The first step to understanding and setting up a good 
listening environment is to understand exactly how your 
speaker sounds. There are two factors involved. 
1. The sound of the Speakers 
2. The sound of the Room
Find out the frequency response of speaker to get a 
starting point to understand the sound of your speakers. Once 
you know this, you can then move on to understanding the 
sound of room and finding a position that compliments the 
speaker with the room.
2. Understand your 
Room
• When sound is created between any two fixed limits, like the 
walls of a room, it creates something called standing waves.
• This is a byproduct of the physical nature of reflection of 
sound waves and the main factor that defines the sound of a 
room. These standing waves are determined by the 
dimensions of a room i.e the L x B x H.
• You can use a simple tool like room Mode Calculator to find 
the Nodes and Antinodes in your Room.
3. Find the best 
placement of Speaker 
according to Room
Now that you know what your Room and Speakers 
sound like, the next step is to align the speakers in a way to get 
the best out of your room.
4. Using REW
REW is free software that lets you measure the frequency 
response of the room. You can download it off the website 
at https://www.roomeqwizard.com/. You can go through a 
simple software guide to understand how to use this software.
Ensure that you’re marking the positions that you place the 
speakers in so you can revert to them at a later stage.
5. Basic Room Treatment
Once you’ve found a good spot around the length of the 
room you can look at doing some basic sound treatment for 
your room to bring out the best possible sound out of them.
1. Start by creating Bass Traps
2. Treat the first reflection points
3. Absorb the back wall
4. Absorb and Angle the Ceiling and Side Walls
5. Create a Reflection Free Zone
Thank You.
Source: https://academy.gray-spark.com/tuning-
speakers/