most effective bass traps


It seems that ASC has very popular bass traps, but at a significant cost. There are other companies that claim to have more effective bass traps. Is there any empirical (or subjective) evidence that one companies traps are more effective than another?
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As Stevecham noted, the Auralex products do a very good job and are cost effective. My room was a charcoal gray color before I installed mine so they blended nicely.
Anyone tried the bass traps from the company the 'foam factory'? They seem cheaper than the others and there is also free shipping on orders over $75.
The ones in the corners.

Depends on the frequencies you want to trap. Although I'm skeptical of their product claims to go as deep as they state, I'm in no position to argue. The methods of measuring sabines for an individual trap have little to do with a typical listening position or overall effectiveness. It might be fun to have a shootout between the brands with a single microphone in the same room. Should the constraints be dollars or square footage? Would it be relevant? Probably not. It wouldn't be your room and your speakers.

The science of these is not complex, often misunderstood and, sometimes, misrepresented. What it comes down to is addressing your unique situation, which is the probably the least understood. However, no matter which brand or type, most who have just taken a stab at it have been impressed with almost everything, which seems to indicate it's all worthwhile.
Read everything you can on the www.Realtraps.com website. They give you the best information with wonderfully comprehensive details.

FYI: Foam is not all that effective as a bass trap even if the website selling it says so. Compressed fiberglass or bonded acoustical cotton are leagues better down load and across the board.
Do a search here for "superchunks"...you find all sorts of links. One of them has test results plotted. SC's will match or beat nearly anything out there for a whole lot less$$...and they can look nice, or invisible if you finish off the corners of the walls.