Room Too Dead
Hello All,
I am looking for advice and ideas on how to condition my Home Theater room. I built the theater in my unfinished basement. The foundation walls are covered in insulation and vapor barrier. Instead of construction walls to cover them, I chose a "pipe and drape" to cover the walls. I believe that the room is too dead. It seems to affect overall soundstage in the midrange range. Does anybody have experience with this problem and ideas to add a little "excitement" to the room? Thank you all.
Just to be clear, bass will not get “absorbed” in any way whatsoever by underlying layers of drapes — just some mids and highs will be attenuated and that’s it. Bass waves are waaaay too long to be affected at all by some fabric, so they’ll pass right through that uninhibited to your cement walls. |
A heavily damped room is just fine..... IF you can tow your speakers in toward your listening position. When you are dampened everywhere, you lose your reflection and boundries. So, to get a real idea of how well your speakers can throw a soundstage an image, they need to be towed in. If you speakers have natural peaks that are unpleasant, then it gets tough in a room that is highly damped. |
Might as well just listen to a good headphone setup. Same thing and takes the room completely outta the equation and relatively much cheaper.
Yes, there absolutely is such a thing. Nothing at the absolute extreme is ever good. Read this from someone who knows more than you ever will about constructing a great-sounding room and educate yourselves… http://www.gedlee.com/downloads/HT/Home_theater.pdf
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