Quote Originally Posted by Ian Mackenzie View Post
Another approach is to put the enclosure face up on the ground and place a temporary mdf baffle extension or apron around the baffle of at least one metre. The thing is of course a domestic room setting is going to make any of these idealised measurements superfluous. Appropriate room equalisation with Dirac would resolve most of the issues. Edit The other thing often overlooked because it’s difficult to measure is the influence of room boundary proximity below 150 hertz. It’s a case by case thing. Then you have Room modes that usually swamp native response variations in relatively small domestic listening rooms. In my family room there was a broad hump from 150 hertz down to 40 hertz. The Dirac cleaned up the midrange after that was removed.
My problem with the apron around the baffle method is that it does not include the baffle diffraction in the measurement. I like to know how that is affecting the measurement.