Office partitions as sound panels

Clio 09
I have heard the Sumiko Master setup is very good. How do you go about getting it. Thanks.

"Really good speaker placement" is undeniably
essential but it cannot fix the acoustical problems of a room
with unfortunate dimensions and inappropriate surfaces (lack
of absorption/diffusion). You just make the best of a bad
situation.

Marqmike, here are a couple of links. These differ slightly but the concept is very similar. You can actually hire someone trained in this process as well to do the set up for you. I just followed the methods described in the forum posts. You will note one recommends two people be involved, but you can do it yourself too as I do.

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=60819.0
http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthread.php?5894-The-Sumiko-setup

As you can see the set up involves removing any room treatments. Then when completed, adding back room treatments as required to finish the job. I have found this to be quite effective and now find I need to dump some of my excess room treatments.

Another effective method to avoid using or overusing room treatments is the diagonal set up. Then of course there is near field listening. I have tried all these methods with very good results in a variety of less than friendly rooms. Although all this can be intimidating, it's really not so hard to figure out. It does take an extreme amount of patience though and if you are not single, a compassionate significant other.

Clio 09
Thanks a lot for the information.