Acoustic Assistant
Most mixes don't translate because the room is the weakest link. Bass response at your listening position is uneven, reflections smear your stereo image, and what sounds great on your monitors falls apart in the car. Acoustic Assistant helps you fix that.
A good setup starts with the space you have. Enter your room's dimensions and describe its doors and windows. Acoustic Assistant builds a model to scale, ready to work out where your speakers and your listening position could go.
From here the room is L-shaped: in a complex shape these patterns are hard to guess. Your room naturally resonates at certain frequencies, called room modes. Each has a different pattern across the room, with areas of stronger and weaker sound pressure. Acoustic Assistant maps these patterns, but which ones affect your listening depends on your setup.
Where your speakers stand affects which modes they excite. Where you sit affects how strongly you hear them. Reflections from nearby walls can also reinforce or cancel parts of the sound. Acoustic Assistant calculates how these effects combine, predicting the bass response at your listening position.
Moving a speaker can improve one part of the bass and make another worse. Acoustic Assistant compares alternative speaker and listening positions, weighing those effects together. See how a suggested layout compares with yours, then use its dimensions to set up your room.
Surround and Dolby Atmos add another layer: each speaker needs the right angle and elevation around your listening position. Acoustic Assistant calculates positions according to the layout specifications and gives you the distances and setup details for each speaker.
*Limited to the first 200 rooms.
Find better speaker and listening positions today. Get treatment optimization at no extra cost when it launches.
If the assistant can't improve your setup, request a full refund within 30 days.
Requirements: a desktop browser. Limitations: rooms with more than one subwoofer are not supported yet.
Say what needs to stay where it is. Acoustic Assistant guides you through the details, calculates your options and turns them into a setup you can follow.
Find out what's holding your room back, what to change first and where your speakers and listening position should go. Acoustic Assistant explains each recommendation, so you know what to do, and why it matters for your mixes.
Each problem is named, ranked by severity and tied to what you hear, so you stop guessing whether a muddy low end is your room or your mix.
The mains cancel each other broadly around 82 Hz at the listening position, leaving a serious low-bass hole.
Untreated front-wall and ceiling reflections arrive within a few milliseconds and blur imaging/tonality.
Strong modal peaks near 36 and 66 Hz combine with a subwoofer null around 72 Hz at the seat.
Each finding is traced from symptom to cause: what you hear, why your room produces it and what to do about it, in plain language, with the physics where it helps.
Monitoring report
Strengths
The captured setup has a fundamentally workable front-stage geometry. The listening position and mains form a near-equilateral stereo triangle: the stereo angle is about 62°, which is very close to the normal 60° reference target. Both main tweeters are also at the same height as the listening position, so the direct mid/high image is starting from a sensible vertical geometry.
The room volume is also useful for a small critical-listening room: about 60.9 m³ with a 2.3 m ceiling. That gives more low-frequency working space than a very small box room. The L-shaped plan is more complex than a rectangle, but it also avoids the perfectly repeated axial pattern of a simple shoebox.
The main weakness is not the stereo angle; it is the interaction between this captured placement, the L-shaped modal field, untreated early reflections, and close boundary loading.
Filed monitoring problems
“Broad L/R cancellation around 82 Hz”
The summed left/right response has a major cancellation centred around roughly 82 Hz. The important clue is that the individual left and right speakers are not both equally missing that band, but together they cancel strongly at the listening position.
That means this is mainly an inter-source cancellation: the two mains are producing bass energy, but their phase relationship at the seat is close to opposing in that region. In plain terms, one speaker’s pressure rise arrives as the other speaker’s pressure fall, so the combined bass drops out.
Why it matters: this is in a musically important bass region — kick weight, bass guitar fundamentals, low toms, and the body of many electronic sounds. Because it is a cancellation at the listening position, simply turning the band up with EQ would not reliably solve it; the speakers are already producing energy, but the geometry makes it subtract at the seat...
This is a discounted, limited early access offer. The app is well tested, but real rooms differ more than any testing covers, so we keep improving it, and your room gets every improvement as it ships.
*Limited to the first 200 rooms.
Find better speaker and listening positions today. Get treatment optimization at no extra cost when it launches.
If the assistant can't improve your setup, request a full refund within 30 days.
Requirements: a desktop browser. Limitations: rooms with more than one subwoofer are not supported yet.