Room Treaments - Where To Begin...


Hi All: I have read countless comments that the best thing you can do to improve the listening experience is to acoustically treat the room. But where does one gain the expertise to do so? There are so many products/options out there. I have no clue where to begin (or if I even need to do it)... Thanks!

gnoworyta

@erik_squires yes, well I am certainly on board and can attest to it working better, I thought it might be from breaking up the bass energies. But on this I am still discovering what to do, well, at least I'm reading and muddling through it.

@fleschler about activated carbon filters, yeah I've used the Acoustic Fields QRD17 plans for four diffusers, and I'm deliberating building two or possibly three of their low frequency absorbers (I might even just break out the cash and buy them instead).
How much did you use? What sized room, and impressions?
I'd really like to know, sorry if I'm getting personal.

The best thing you can do, is to very precisely place your speakers by listening and using REW.

Take a look at the Before and after, with absolutely no room treatment. This living-music room is the most difficult room to make music sound good, vaulted ceilings, L shaped lots of little right angle little walls, a fireplace, and a lot of windows and skylights. On top the house is made with wood sticks, plaster walls, the wood floors are suspended, in other words a resonance box.

 

 

Here is the before and after, as you can see the bass was way too loud. Look at the dip between 200Hz and ~350Hz. 

Some could argue that I need more energy from 300Hz down, I will try new tubes to lower the brightness  and see what the tubes do