Bookshelf vs diffuser panel. Who wins?


I have a 3 x 5 bookshelf filled with books. The books are not even and some are more inserted than others.

Isn't this accomplishing the same thing as a 3 x 5 diffuser panel?

 

jumia

@dekay Re egg flats....cheap seats, zero WAF. *L*

In the basement dungeons, backed with rock wool sheets and angled, it’ll work.

Best to be a confirmed bachelor if in the living space is the only option....

Been around enough garage bands with delusions of grandeur, but funds limited to equipment v. ’studio treatments’. Anything to keep the neighbors from being revolting...reference "Joe’s Garage" - F. Zappa

Personally I've been considering these:

Available in a number of patterns, can accept paint...won't 'go' with Early American or other sorts of furnishings that y'all live with and prefer and enjoy, but...beats being banished to the basement or out of the homestead entirely. ;)

Mounted to movable MDF panels for experiments until one is happy or at least resigned to what is possible...

Heavy curtains on long hardware, floor to ceiling.....the 'stage look' as a backdrop...

YRWV....

Good luck to us all....J

Does anyone have experienced with the vertical blinds, say on a window behind the speakers, as opposed to having curtains there as a diffuser panel?