Help Building an Audio Room

@jo1mtb Glad to read that you are finding the AMROC tool useful. The BOLT area calculation is pretty cool. Suggest that you also run the proposed room dimensions through Bob Gold’s tool before you finalize. It is more in-depth and provides a little more complete analysis.

Re: WAF and room treatment/bass absorption, I recently read about a clever idea that might work for you: build a full-width closet at one end of the room (maybe instead of the bookcases?) with louvered bi-fold doors and fill it with acoustic batting material. Sort of a large hidden bass trap. The louvered doors would allow bass waves to enter the chamber while acting as a primitive diffusor for the highs and the interior volume would be pretty large (2’ deep X 15’ wide x 10’ tall = 300 cubic feet), providing effective low frequency absorption and would be completely out of sight and relatively inexpensive compared to standard in-room absorption products.

@panzrwagn, I like your 'piano keys' approach on the wall.  A simple 'graphic' approach that makes what's usually bland into appropriate for a audio room....

I think I'll 'steal' that... ;)

Hi, Miller....I'm working towards a distributed sub system, think it'd best with my omnis...time will tell. *G*

Try contacting Matt Clott (spelling) from TAS.  His room is completely done up.  He may have some good suggestions for you and possibly some help in purchasing.

Happy Listening.

@jo1mtb I believe the room LxWxH you are proposing will work well. Check out ATS Acoustics for ideas. The rockwool material can likely be purchased locally and you can incorporate panels into the walls. As oposed to bass traps I placed diagonally in corners. worked well and saves dollars. 

Just as a side note there was an interesting article in the June 2021 Stereophile magazine in the industry update section from Kongens Lyngby of Denmark that quoted studies from Jens Holger Rindel a Danish acoustics software company that the room height was not as critical regarding room nodes as was the relationship of the width to length.  "Any length-to-width ratio in the range of 1.15-1.45 is fine.  So for example if your room is 15' wide, any length between 17.25' and 21.75' is okay.  Surprisingly, as long as the room is wider than it is high, the height of the ceiling doesn't matter very much, Rindel found."  Kind of interesting.