Room treatment-I was afraid of this


There I was with a dedicated room-not ideal being nearly square and a less than 8' ceiling-and barely adequate music, not awful but the system had sounded better. I tried moving things about some with differing results but nothing satisfying. Part of the problem was moving from a 30x35 foot room with an 18' ceiling. I was used to the speakers being well out into the room, far apart and sitting pretty far away. I used the odd integer matrix method promoted by Vandersteen but hadn't considered either placing them closer to the wall or moving near field. Nick at GIK recommended both, as well as some furniture rearranging that made a very pleasant difference. That was all the encouragement I needed to order bass traps, 1st and 2nd reflection panels and front and rear wall treatments. Installed them by about 4pm Monday and listened until 2 am, back at it last night from 3pm-1am. It's just as so many have said, this is a serious component upgrade. It is matched in scale only when I went from Vandersteen 2CE's to Chapman T-77SE's. Not a single aspect of the listening experience that isn't enhanced. So now the problem; I suppose a lot of the glowing stuff folks make of cables, power cords, fuses, and on and on also make significant differences. How long can it be before I'm off and running on that stuff?
wideload
Diffusion or absorption behind and between the speakers?
Brands to consider?
I did place the corner traps first. Then the TV trap and later the bass traps behind the listening  seat. The room is a hard room with windows left, concrete wall with sheetrock right, sheetrock ceiling and hardwood floors on concrete. The damping seems a bit much but trust me for this room the positive effect became noticeable with the two monster bass traps and the six pieces of Owens Corning , one foot thick on the floor.
It's a far cry from when I first set things up, one small love seat and nothing else in the room. At the time I hadn't had a music system for thirty years-crazy I know-and was thrilled, soon got busy on the room.
Aside-bought the speakers from a guy in Buffalo, NY flew up, rented a Yukon and drove them back to Atlanta, all in one day. You might say that the audio bug had bitten me pretty hard. no?
Best of luck and enjoy the music.
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Hi dentdog,

I think this is the same guy that graciously published a lot of research on the effects of different diffusors and also great instructions on a DIY how- to:

http://arqen.com/sound-diffusers/faq/?awt_l=N6Exr&awt_m=3vamGTydekOvzB9&utm_source=diffusers...

I was guided to this by randy-11 (thanks Randy) on another thread. As I am limited on workworking equipment, I thought of ways to build a quick and dirty replica using the DIY instructions on the link. I finally found some fluted wooden curtain rods from Bed, Bath and Beyond that looked similar to, but not nearly as good as, the custom-cut fluted-type he uses and ordered them. $112 just for six rods. Still would need to buy board for the backing plate and offsets and spend ?? hours trying to cut and build these "replicas".

Point being, I cannot imagine a better deal on a good diffuser than the one you recommended above. Pre-designed, pre-built, and ready to hang for $99. Available here on Audiogon. Whatta deal! The rods are going back to BB & B.

Best to you dentdog,
Dave