Can’t you spread the drapes a little at a time?
Also as others have said, add bookshelves, CD racks, anything to diffuse the sound.
All the best.
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.
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@bpoletti Well, I listened to some of my reference recordings in an acoustically dead room on a very good system with Rockport speakers and they sounded lifeless and awful and couldn’t wait to get outta there. Plus, when speaker manufacturers design speakers they don’t do it in acoustically dead rooms (or at least none that I know of do) so they’re not voiced at all for that environment. There are obviously important uses for both absorption and diffusion depending on the room, system, and personal taste, but I doubt there are many here who prefer an acoustically dead room. So I have a different take on this from you, and that’s ok and I respect your reasoning and position — different strokes. The only thing that matters at the end of the day is that we enjoy the sound we get from our systems no matter how we get there. Peace. |
It's OK for you to be wrong. We're used to it. If you like that kind of distortion, so be it. There have been plenty of other "tests" that contradict your comment. In one case, playback of a recording in Powell Hall of a SLSO recording was "wrong" because it excited the hall's acoustics. Played back in a dead room fixed the problem. I know first-hand of the results because I was there.
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@bpoletti So much for “peace.” Well, the vast, vast majority of people here with dedicated listening rooms use some absorption, some diffusion, or some mix thereof to suit their tastes, and of all the threads I’ve read here on treating rooms over many years I don’t remember one person who created or recommended a completely dampened room even though they could — not one. Hmmmm. Suffice it to say you’re in the very extreme minority, so if I’m “wrong” then so are most of the people here, but u do u. Frankly, I don’t think there is a “wrong” here and ultimately, and as usual in audio, it comes down to personal tastes and preferences whatever they be and choosing room treatment is no different. |
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