Tell us about your acoustic treatments

For me, it was “wow, this completely transformed the low end and was more than worth every dollar spent.” It made more difference to the sound in my old room than spending 3x the money on speakers. And the new room, being well sealed and in the basement, was a hopeless echo chamber without bass trapping.

And in cleaning up the low end, you should get far more clarity across the rest of the band.

Thanks Mike. I’m not familiar with all the products you use. Is it mainly absorptive bass traps? Any limp membranes? Tuned traps? Resonators?

I only used superchunk corner traps, diffusers and absorber, i had no large peaks that needed addressing.

the room measured so well i dont use the parametrics EQ in my MiniDSP for my subs, and adding in room gain gets me flat to 10hz

For the low frequencies, I've used mainly absorptive bass traps. When I looked into tuned traps (GIK Scopus traps), I thought they were too difficult, as you have to get the frequency exactly right, and if that frequency is > 100 Hz, the traps are big and expensive. I understand that Vicoustic now has a tuned (resonator?) trap with a clever design to adjust the frequency by telescoping the trap. I have nether seen it nor tried it, nor do I have space in my room for one more thing (!), but it seems like a great idea. To deal with deep-bass problems much below 100 Hz, I use DSP.

Thanks for the reply. I’ll have to check out that adjustable bass trap. It makes a lot of sense. One of these days I will build or buy some traps. I use DSP which really helps. I wonder if you can reduce the number of bass traps you need by adding more and more subwoofers and using DSP. What are the odds you can reduce the number of traps required to zero with a well tuned distributed bass array?