The LowBeats living/listening room is actually an office: a very large one, however. With over 70 square meters, it offers enough space for the editor-in-chief as well as two listening situations with a high degree of realism to classic listening rooms. The floor is parquet and the room has many windows. This ensures a lot of reverberation.
To prevent the reverberation from getting out of hand, we installed a number of Fast Audio absorbers in key locations. The room has nevertheless remained very “alive”. That is intentional. Because this is where we test the small systems and all soundbars that normally have to work in exactly these conditions.
This is because the small systems – and here, of course, we are primarily talking about the small speakers – usually have too little energy and too little sound pressure. A room that is only slightly damped is just right. This is especially true for soundbars and similar constructions that use various tricks to create a surround reproduction. Soundbars and the equally popular Bluetooth speakers require rooms with a large reflective surface because they generally have very little power. However, the LowBeats listening room offers an abundance of reflective surfaces. Also because of the large conference table, which is not only the center of our meetings, but is also often misused as a base for photo shoots.
The dual use of this room as an office and a living/listening room has many advantages. But above all: there is always a lot of music in the LowBeats office… Many tests and the recordings for the LowBeats sound oracle are made here:
LowBeats HiFi listening room: here you can hear everything
And here we test everything to do with home cinema:
LowBeats test cinema conversion: More Atmos despite Auro