Just updated my virtual system

Maybe this will help frame my conversion a little:

I’ve had the soffit traps for a very long time, but I’ve been steadily adding mondo traps after I bought this house. So I went from relying almost completely on the soffit traps, which are great, to spreading the love around.

Now that my room is nearing completion, I am thinking that a combination unit in their place, with additional absorption thanks to the stacked up tri-traps will move things in the right direction from where it is now.

If you have nothing and know you need bass traps, the soffits are phenomenal but the tri-traps give me the option to add a little more diffusion surface whcih I know I need.

This isn't so much about product quality but total balance. I can't tell you how much they improved the sound of my speakers in a room and how much bigger my speakers sound thanks to them. 

Great, I’m at the first phase of adding traps and that won’t be for a while as, similarly, I’ve had a large outlay on system upgrades. So I’ll stick to soffits and add first reflection points as well.

@erik_squires , it is not a matter of being "inert." It looks like you have placed the crossovers in the drawers, the cavity under the loudspeakers. Correct me if I am wrong. It is the cavity that is the problem. Cavities resonate. If you stuff the cavity full with some dense material you no longer have a resonating cavity. Drummers do this all the time when they stuff a blanket into their bass drum.

We have the same rack. Butcherblock makes some nice stuff.

conformal coat dip the crossovers, Wondercoat…if ya can find any..

Nice room, good work balancing act :-)

best to you

Jim