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Acoustic treatment question: do you agree with Dennis Foley that $46k to $65k is required?

In a video from 1/29/2021 (yesterday) Dennis Foley, Acoustic Fields warns people about acoustic treatment budgets. He asserts in this video that treatment will likely require (summing up the transcript):

Low end treatment: $5-10k

Middle-high frequency: $1-1.5k

Diffusion: Walls $10-15k, Ceiling: $30, 40, 50k

https://youtu.be/6YnBn1maTTM?t=160

Ostensibly, this is done in the spirit of educating people who think they can do treatment for less than this.

People here have warned about some of his advice. Is this more troubling information or is he on target?

For those here who have treated their rooms to their own satisfaction, what do you think of his numbers?


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sandthemall
544 posts
 
Sound waves really don't care if you're a certified room treatment product.
So you can be sneaky with room treatments:

No on glass-framed artworkYes on framed canvas paintings
Yes on wood carvings and tapestries
Yes on balancing the left and right side...
Yes on drapes and house plants in textured potsNo on glass coffee tablesYes on strategically placed rugsYes on fewest things between the speakers
See where I'm going where this?


inna
7,296 posts
 
For $65k you can buy a small house, and that is not in the middle of Alaska. But then again, some buy $10k cables. I don't go over $1k with cables, used. Anyway, I listen almost near field too.
ps
756 posts
 
I’m going with a few dozen of those magic dots and something like a DSPeaker Anti-mode. Betcha I’ll save at least $43.5k and probably even more than that. Then, I’ll go on YouTube and sell secret sauce.
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bkeske
5,597 posts
 
@hilde45

@bkeske I wasn’t beating up on him. He may cater to high end clients and that’s fine. I took note of this video because it was explicitly aimed at what a minimum budget would require. In other words, this is not a video aimed at movie studios or yacht owners. It was that framing — which he chose — which called the question. I’m just asking it.

No, it was aimed at his products and his solutions. He isn’t recommending that kind of money on a generic product, or speaking in general. Again, I’m sure his products work, the question is, do you want to spend money on it. If not, don’t buy his products. Pretty simple.
audio2design
1,351 posts
 
I think I sent you some links on Foley. You have your answer. He does not have a lot of respect in the industry.
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