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Best Cheap acoustic wall treatments?

I am converting a 12x20 space into a home theater and want to treat the room. The walls and ceiling are drywalled, with thin carpeting on the floor. Are there any inexpensive wall panels or the like that are available? Should I consider draping the entire room in fabric? Thanks for your thoughts.
jmslaw
jeffloistarca
1,004 posts
 
some good info here:

http://decware.com/room.htm

And I like the plans for these bass traps:

http://www.ethanwiner.com/basstrap.html

Bounce over to the Asylum and do some studying up as well:

http://www.audioasylum.com/index.html
fatparrot
1,314 posts
 
Make sure that any foam that you use is fire resistant or fire retardant. Coming from New England, those pictures of the Warwick nightclub fire (100 horrible deaths, many more additional horrific injuries) will haunt me forever!
drguayo
30 posts
 
http://www.primacoustic.com/index.html

Especially the Europa Flutter walls an 8' x 3' array costs about $220 Canadian. You get all the pieces and glue them on so you can take the 8' x 3' and use it on 6' x 6' for example.
gunbei
2,327 posts
 
I have some non-foamy suggestions.

How about curtains? Maybe not along the entire wall, but in certain key areas like first reflections and so on, possibly to suggest windows that are non-existent.

If you eventually put up shelving for your media that could be effective as well.

Good luck!
jmslaw OP
95 posts
 
Some great tips- Thanks! Drguayo, those primacoustics products look great! I checked the site, but they don't have prices listed. Do you have any idea what their basic packages start at?

Thanks,

Jeff
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