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Help with room treatments

I’m wanting to add some treatments to my listening space. I’ve reached out to GIK and ASC. GIK is proposing more treatments than ASC (reflection points, diffusers on back wall, bass traps in corners and behind speakers). ASC has only recommended tube traps in the corners and treatment at reflection points.

The ASC traps alone are more expensive than all of the combined treatments GIK is suggesting.

Has anyone used treatments from either  of these companies? Do you feel the ASC traps are worth the added expense?
shadow8911
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lowrider57
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However, I would say, start easy. If you think it’s a big deal, you can add more components as you go along. 

Agree, go with GIK due to their good service and pricing. You can start with bass traps in corners behind speakers and panels at 1st reflection points. You will need either diffusion or absorbtion on the wall behind speakers to improve imaging. Hard to say without knowing your room.

Please tell us the size and layout of your room, type of floor and walls.



mesch
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Also check out ATS Acoustics, Piper City, Illinois. Check out their web site and give them a call. Very helpful personnel and fair pricing. They offer DIY and completed traps, diffusers, and panels.

I am not afilliated, just a purchaser of their products.
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dlcockrum
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Above advice to start slow, add until you reach "saturation" and then back off is on target. Any seller that suggests buying a ton of traps to start with is to be avoided, a la Ethan "Mr. Anechoic Chamber" Winer.

Dave
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geoffkait
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are so many room problems the topic should probably be broken up into a number of subtopics.And the number of audiophile devices that have been introduced to combat all those problems has grown as a consequence. you got your Echo Tunes, Corner Tunes, Mpingo Discos, Skyline diffuser, Tube Traps,s, Helmholtz resonators, crystals, Marigo VTS dots,SteinMusic devices, Schumann resonators, PWB devices, etc.
erik_squires
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I think the point of the thread was just who to spend money with.

Simple topic. Simple answer: GIK.

More on this, I recently went to the California Audio Show in Oakland. ASC was a sponsor. Rooms were terrible sounding. Midrange sucked right out of them, and yeah, almost 100% tube traps.  Could not wait to get home.

Only a couple of rooms had modest treatment, those sounded the best to my ears.

Best,

E
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