HELP with Room Treatment See Slideshow
The one thing you don't mention is what issues you are having. Are you getting return echo from the hallway-kitchen side? That gives you a big unbalance on the left side. I would say try adding treatmenst to those areas to absorb any sound from coming back at you from that side. Maybe reduce the reflectivity from the rh wall. Hard space to work with. experiment experiment experiment! |
Go to Fabricmate.com and check out the modular panel systems in their store. I (and my wife) think those look much cleaner than any of the clunky panels with feet you move around the room. They can custom fabricate any size and configuration, with any available acoustic fabric, you desire. Maybe the customized options a source like this offers will help overcome the aversion to wall mount solutions. The custom fabricated panel system that looks like wainscoting is easy on the eyes. Good luck. |
It looks to me as though your room has a large volume (the rear wall is open, the left wall is distant from the left speaker) but early reflections. (No wonder you have a big subwoofer.) The more first reflection points you can treat, the better. The right speaker cries out to be moved away from the wall, but obviously there's not much room to do that. An absorbent panel could be placed either on that wall (to the right of the right speaker) or in the corner (where it could do double duty as a bass trap if properly designed). Given that you can't change where your system is placed, I would look into treating that wall and corner first. Have a look at Jon Risch's acoustics pages to get an idea of what's possible. http://www.geocities.com/jonrisch/a.htm To see if it would help to treat that corner simultaneously for bass-region modes and mid-high diffusion, try a quick-and-dirty test. Buy or borrow a large sealed plastic bag of insulation (fiberglass, rock wool or other), place it in the corner behind the right speaker and do some test listening. Obviously you won't be able to leave the bag there--you may even have no other use for it and have to take it back to the store for a refund afterwards--but if you do have anything to gain from treating that corner, it should show up. |
