Room with glass windows as a walls.


My daughter moved from first floor townhouse apartment to 42nd floor skyscraper apartment and fifty percent of her apartment walls are actually glass windows from floor to ceiling now.

I helped her with setting up her system at old place and the sound was pretty decent however new apartment acoustic wise is total disaster.
 Of course I did put her system together at new place but sound is terrible. She actually understands all my explanations about acoustic issues at new place, but she doesn’t take it seriously. My daughter  actually listens to a lot of music, sometimes for hours however I wouldn’t call her audiophile, probably just a serious music lover and I understand that she will have listening fatigue pretty soon at her new place.  

Acoustic treatment probably would be limited or refused due to esthetic and design incompatibility. Has anyone experienced setting up a system in such conditions, any advice? 

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@unreceivedogma 

She has never been interested in my advice.

My is reasonable. She is not shy to ask for my advice in tech questions, audio system, cars etc. recently she asked for good old movies. For music she has own taste, but when some times she listened to my stuff at home or in my car, she is asking me for a names. When advice is coming by my initiative it could be ignored for some time but when she rolled it in her head for a while she returns to it and asks  me like nothing happened, makes it look like it her initiative:)

 

@toddalin are those black-out drapes custom made or sold as a precut panels? Is color choice available?

there is no evidence that glass performs differently than drywall...except in the lower frequencies. 

the challenge with glass is that you can't really hang art or other things like you can with drywall...so you get bad flutter echo. 

Modern rooms also typically don't have carpet. I'm guessing this is true for your daughters new space....so rugs with carpet pads will help. 

Furnishings can also help. Again modern furniture won't be as helpful as it's typically reflective compared to soft and plushy. Clutter can also be helpful. You don't want a sparce room.

best of luck  

If she can afford to live in an apartment on the 43 floor .God Bless Her.. li

I’ve had my main stereo system set up in front of a large expanse of glass for 25 years. Always was advised to put curtains on the windows to tame the reflections, but I like to enjoy the view while listening.  What has really helped is to creatively find ways to listen in the near field with the speakers pulled out a bit from the glass. Took some trial and error.  Not perfect but sounds terrific.  And my adult sons absolutely don’t listen to my decorating or setup advice!