How to design music room?

What are you looking for? Noise isolation for listening? A good acoustical environment? Both? Both of the questions could be easily addressed, but you'll need to be more specific. Cheers!

Brian

Sit down with the architect and explain all your issues. You will want to use construction materials, which prohibit the transfer sound into the walls, ceiling and subfloor. From my own experience I would have the roof rafters/trusses designed to receive two layers of 5/8 sheet rock. The floor joist/trusses should also be designed to add Dura Rock to the plywood subfloor material. Dura Rock is a cement-based material, which is used to provide a firm level base for ceramic tile, when installed over wood floors and walls. The material comes in 4’X6’ sheets and is joined with fiber tape and adhesives. My ideas are only to give you something to think about. Please use a licensed Architect/Contractor and always get a Building Permit.

Your Friendly Building Inspector

Unless you are prepared to do a lot of research I would suggest someone like Rives or Rives to give you advice. Stay away from the high end acoustic companies. They are a rip off. Do a search on the threads here and you will find a wealth of good advice. On the floor you should do a double subfloor with 1/2 inch or better cork in between the two layers of subfloor. You should also consider rubber strips or other separation methods between the joists and the first layer of subfloor.

Make sure that you play the music in your room on the first place:-)

Hueske-
primary goal is the best accoustics, secondary is noise isolation, and overall goal is listening nirvana
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