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Cork room treatments

Has anyone used dimensional cork as room treatment?

Is it effective?  Unfortunately I don't have the luxury of a dedicated listening room. My system is in the family room adjacent to an open kitchen. So bass traps and GIK panels everywhere are not an option.  I do have a few GIK panels that are wife approaved strategically placed.  To improve my room more without making it look like a recording studio we are considering dimensional cork panels. Has anyone tried cork?  Any thoughts?

 Here is a link to the cork panels I am considering.

sandrodg73
ghdprentice
7,333 posts
 

Great idea. Sure looks like it would be effective, unfortunately I have no experience. 

sandrodg73 OP
136 posts
 

Thanks.  We haven't pulled the trigger yet.  It's a bit expensive for the area we want to do.   Im sure it's not as good as acustic panels and bass traps but given my constraints it's an option that would look good and acusticly be better than a painted wall

raam
84 posts
 

It might be better in a particular bandwidth than the rest of the freq range. Perhaps you could get one order and place on the side walls on each side close to the speaker and see how it works that way. You could also temp glue onto something you can take it off easily if you decide to get more and need to change the panel.

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dekay
5,681 posts
 

I worked with cork wall and floor covering in the 80's.

Don't know about sonics, but unless sealed cork smells (for a long, long time while outgassing).

 

DeKay

 

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