Room treatments for a lively sounding room

My experience as a long time apartment dweller, and now home owner, was that the GIK products I have travelled very well from place to place. The broad band soffit traps have been especially effective and beneficial.

I do think the pro calculators ask for excess treatment, but each room and space is different.  In my case with modest sized rooms they have worked really well and in fact have outlived every other piece of stereo gear.

I have six more units coming in march.  A pair of corner traps and four 4" thick bass traps to cover the bay window which is where the TV lives.  The view is to my neighbor's window so covering this up is fine.

I'll post when they are in.

The first thing to do is get a measurement microphone and a problem that gives you frequency response and group delays. After that get dirt cheap 4” acoustic tiles and place them to eliminate group delays (first reflections) and smooth frequency response trying to make both channels as close to each other as possible. Then you can replace the tiles with better looking treatments if you like. Every time the wife moves things around you have to remeasure and tweak. There are ways to do this blind but they will never be as good as using a microphone.

You could use window shades with design in them ..I know when I put my shades down on picture window what a difference .. I would use the thick black out shades

I like GIK also. In my room the corners have quite a bit of bass build up that is easy to hear by walking along the walls.The corners where the walls meet the ceiling were the most critical areas to treat.