Building dedicted listening room

I agree with Niels, and would add that Everest's "Sound Studio Construction on a Budget", which covers all kinds of rooms, not just sound studios, and goes into "from the ground up" construction with some, is also excellent.

I would agree with both posts above. I own both of the the books mentioned and they are very informative. The Master Handbook has a section that is especially usefull in regards to ideal room dimensions. It lists the room proportions yeilding the most favorable distribution of room modes, and that with new construction it is strongly advised to use these porportions as a guide. It is true that a lot of this book is highly confusing stuff. I take some of what is said with caution as it is in refrence to the pro audio world side of things, which can be quite a differing opinion than that of the hifi world. I am also in the process of planning a dedicated listening room and would like to get some ideas from some hifi guys in the know on room acoustics. Maybe we can bounce some ideas off of each other and keep each other informed on information we find out along the way. If you want to email me I'd be happy to share with you some of the formulas that yield favorable mode distibution. ejlif@sunset.net

I would agree with the others in terms of doing a LOT of reading BEFORE you start doing your building. Right off the bat, i would think that having a room measurement of 14' one way would not work well when another measurement is 21'. You would be better off going to either 20', 22', etc... One dimension should not be a multiple or divisible by any of the others. You might also want to think about building a taper into the walls so that they are NOT square or level. Sean
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