I treated my room !


So I finally did it. I’ll share what most here know already. There may be some on the fence. I admit I didn’t do a ton of research. I still can’t interpret REQ as well as I’d like.  I bought 72 of the Auralex 12”x12” panels and glued 8 of them on eight plywood panels so I ended up with eight 2’x4’ panels. I hung these at the reflection points and on the back wall. I also added 20 auralex bass traps with 3 corners done and a row across the front ceiling. Good grief I could probably sell my subs now. I have a horn system and the mids tamed down.  I used to be able to run my preamp at 35%, and can run it at 50% now with no perceived distortion. I probably spent 1200 bucks.  I’m not advertising for Auralex because I’m sure there are many great brands, and many better than what I got but I wish I would have done this 8 years ago when I started building my system.  I run an SVS pb16 ultra and a GSG devastator with a 21” driver and I had to turn the SVS to negative 20, and the Behringer 3000dsp that runs the GSG down to 50% and it’s probably still more bass than I need. If your on the fence about room treatment, go for it !!

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@adrianleewelch  You sound like you're really proceeding in a sensitive and attentive way. All I can add is that there are phases where I thought I was "done" and then it took a while to just live with the sound for a while. That's really an important kind of patience that pays off. Once one lives with something for a while, they give themselves a chance to "wear the room" the way one "wears" a pair of shoes. Over time, you'll listen to a variety of music, and it may be that certain music points out to you where there might be a chance to improve things a little. Or not -- you'd get confirmation that you're "done."

I agree and I didn’t mention that I haven’t done anything with the ceiling yet.  I think there could be so improvement there especially since I use multicell horns. I’m sure they are beaming at the ceiling !

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