Question: Sound Treatment behind the Listener?

emergingsoul.

Thank you, you are too kind.

BTW, my Westie is named Westy. He really loves to lay between the speakers in the sweet spot.

The cd’s are arranged irregularly by the artist. Some groupings have many cd’s, some not so many and there are spaces between artists.

I have the speakers about a 1/3 out from the wall and I sit about 1/3 back from the speakers and then the chair is also 1/3 back from the rear wall. Although, that was mostly just a starting point until I dialed everything in.

This whole thought occurred to me because I really don’t listen to the cd’s anymore. so, I was wondering what to do with that wall if I removed them. I appreciate the very good suggestions that have been made by the community.

ozzy

Art Noxon is the founder of ASC (Acoustical Sciences Corporation).

I learned a lot by reading his technical papers.

Ozzy, you may want to measure your room. If you don't have any WAF considerations and can treat as you please I would measure. 

My GIK rep had a great point which is that, although he rec that I measure my room to see what I'm working with - because it is the LR and I'm WAF limited, that it is less important. This is because even if the measurements call for certain treatments, if they don't look like they will look good in our LR, I'm not buying it.

That said, I'm not tech savy at all and every time I start watching a youtube vid on REW my brain turns to mush. Also, I don't have streaming so I don't have a good way to hook up my laptop to my integrated amp (Primaluna). Someday I'll make the effort when I have more time, but I don't now - but again, it won't make much difference anyway since I'm for the most part limited to panels with Guliford fabric (and not ones with diffusion over top).

It is a amazing that turning the ASC tube traps how it can affect the center image.

ozzy

Sounds like you have a lovely space and you have treated it nicely. Do not over dampen the room.

Do you like the sound you are hearing? Do you believe there is an issue or are you thinking that if you remove your racks you just might create one?

Diffusion is already working on the rear wall due to the CD rack so I believe that is the direction to start with.

I would suggest a 6” thick 2x4 panel directly behind you flanked with two panels specifically designed for diffusion. Diffusion is best when they are placed approximately 8 feet from the listener which it appears you will have slightly more so they will work great there.

If I understand correctly the back corners have bass traps all ready so you should be good after the three panels are installed.

Enjoy and don’t over think this since it appears you already have a very nicely treated room.

Live End Dead End treatment works great in a recording studio when you are near field. I have found in my space if the front wall is too dead so is the music. I have bass traps in the from corners, absorption in the middle and diffuser panels directly behind the speakers. Works very well. My speakers are 55 inches out from the front wall measured from the front of the speaker and the speakers are rear ported so the diffuser panel scatters the sound from the port. Just one way to handle a front wall, there are many others, but the key is don’t over deaden the room.