Try blinds from Hunter Douglas, totally worth it if you value an elegant and long term solution. My room has 3 windows (fortunately) and I went with Duette Cellular shades. https://www.hunterdouglas.com/window-treatments/sound-absorption |
If you can't do anything else there's a variety of window film and installers. Personally I dislike traditional blinds as I find they often don't cut enough light, or leave obnoxious holes of light through. If you need to cut solar heat transfer you'll want metalized films, but if all you want is darker you can definitely do that with a variety of film with different grades of darkness. Of course, there are more advanced slide up/slide down blinds as well. |
Vertical Blinds, Thick Acoustic Fabric, angled one way facing the speakers both absorb sound and block sound reaching glass/hard/reflective surface behind, and still maintain some daylight and view from other vantage points. Heavy duty tracks, pro install for the weight, several separate sections to be individually angled/open Consider the whole wall, above and below the windows if not full height. What is opposite wall? Even though no windows, you could have similar to control side reflections, pull open to reveal artwork, storage, equipment on wall when not in use, |
Another approach is to put something directly in front of the tweeter. I have experimented with different thicknesses of fabric to absorb some of the energy. Easier than treating the entire room. I should add that I was not thrilled with the result although I should have tried some thinner material. I found I lost some high-frequency detail, and it adversely affected the soundstage and seperation. |
+1 for the room treatment(s) highlighted above …easy first intuitive option. Another possible wild card - a novel adjustment When I changed speakers AND changed my listening room to a new room with a very large prominent wall of huge windows, it created a hard new annoying brittleness, an irritating harsh edginess, and new adverse reflections warts introduction, The room treatments were a good first step but still incomplete in its desired effects. Add to it, that pesky WAF and the issue was still an annoying hurdle. The next step was considering new speaker cables for my brand new HARBETH speakers in this new listening arena. My prior all NORDOST FREY ( Ag over Cu) loom worked fine in my prior speakers and mancave, BUT were now an overly too bright , too edgy, too harsh … and anything but pleasing , I sold the NORDOST loom sequentially, and commenced with CARDAS CLEAR power cables and stablemate CARDAS CLEAR IC’s, A distinct uogrsde immediately but the NORDOST speaker cables in process to be sold off too , still were a brittle and edgy and excess brightness performer thst needed to be tamed . before I took the leap directly to matched CARDAs CLEAR model speaker cables, I had a cyberchat with guru (and hubby to Angela Cardas…) Josh Meredith at CARDAS CABLES , for his opinion on brightness taming options. His response surprised me ,,,, read on. Josh informed me that his family home similarly faced brightness excess challenges, from a large bank of large windows that now invoked that listening room excess brightness. Intuitively, he could have the very best CARDAS CLEAR or their too CARDAS CLEAR BEYOND speaker cables . He tried both first but with unresolved brightness concerns still remaining…..his glass windows brightness taming exerciseswas incomplete even with their top all-Cu models. Something with a bit more warmer tone was considered as a further tool/tweak , On the advice of his engineers, Josh inserted their CARDAS CLEAR RELECTION model speaker cables. These third option are one model down from the CARDAS CLEAR and two models down from the very top model CARDAS CLEAR BEYOND models ..,.and with a we’ll known “ warmer” tone in these REFLECTION models.
of course, Josh highlighted to me that if my room permits CLEAR or better CLEAR BEYOND added performance, then intuitively go for it. This glass wall hurdle required a bespoke adjustment experiment worth trying. MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES On Josh’s suggestion, I also followed suit with CARDAS CLEAR REFLECTION speaker cables for my similar glass windows “edge” taming dilemma… Problem solved for me too … Who knew? ( I guess that CARDAS CABLES engineers did .,.)
TAKEAWAY IMO (1) Room treatments first (2) Next .,,, consider an all-Cu high-end cables loom ( stay away from Ag or Ag over Cu materials) with a “warm” presentation to address that not insignificant final step to tame an irritating brightness / edge intrusion from reflection warts in prominent glass windows FWIW |
