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Old 11-01-07, 02:14 PM   #5 (Link)
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I hope nobody will mind if I chime in on this. I realize that some here sell reflective chairs, but I feel this is very important information:

In my experience, all reflective seating is a disaster acoustically if the seat is high enough to be behind your head. Which I assume is all of the brands and models. The main problem is comb filtering - a series of peaks and deep nulls caused by early reflections. In the case of a reflecting surface right behind your head, those reflections are very early. The result is poor imaging caused mainly by the skewed response.

For anyone interested, I tested the effects of reflective seating recently, and the results are in the last section of this page on my company's web site:

http://www.realtraps.com/rfz.htm

--Ethan


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