| Nuances
I think we are all in the same choir Ethan, but some different hymn sheets have been distributed by Mrs. Palin probably. Or, there are many ways to skin a cat......OOPS :-)
I think we all want a room that enables the bass instruments to be heard clearly and separately, without 'single note bass' or overall boominess or not enough overall bass.
We differ in only in how we like to view the measurements, and perhaps the final goal.
You like to identify and quantify individual modes, comb filtering and such, I note you also like to use little or no smoothing when viewing. I am guessing our goal is a flat line for frequency response and perhaps decay.
I go the other way. I want a skewed response, diminishing a HF. Old School. Ditto the Decay times. Perhaps because of this I rather see broad trends, the slope of the curve rather than the wiggles. I like third octaves for several reasons. I am very used to them from live work. They do have a physiological connection with how the ear works. I do believe they visually and otherwise come closer to describing what it sounds like.
They were designed for this work.
Of course I would turn off all smoothing when investigating a single mode, or a single path, to get forensic.
A single mode within the span of a third octave will of course give a very long reading, or it should, if the measurement system can handle the distorted non logarithmic decay. So I think we will end up with the same results.
We are both after the same thing, the cat!
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