I treated my ceiling and am very pleased with the results. The sound is much cleaner and less smeared. It's hard work to treat the ceilings since all the work is overhead! I do believe that the room is one of the most important components in a system.
Treating the ceiling and floor, who else has had great results?
Two areas of the room often neglected by audiophiles IMHO is the ceiling and floor. We focus so much on first reflections we forget about overall energy left in a room after the speaker has stopped.
I've had excellent luck with treating the ceiling, especially for home theater applications, and this was before Atmos. The area behind the speakers near the floor often hides noise and distortion which we didn't know we were hearing. Throw a blanket over there and listen for yourself.
Who else has gone through the trouble of treating their ceiling?
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I have treated ceilings many times, even the floor in front of speakers when in dedicated spaces. I kinda had to do the ceiling in this room with the speakers so near a first reflection point: https://www.audiogon.com/systems/10635#&gid=1&pid=14
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Mostly light absorption on floors, oriental carpets, ceiling combo of absorption and diffusion at critical points. I have sprinkled diffusion panels throughout entire listening room 30'L x 13'W, sloped symmetrical ceiling. Acoustic treatments are also effective quite far from speakers, get the right treatments room can sound larger, greater immersion in sound field at listening position. Spent many years getting this all just right. |
I need to clarify. For the floor this time I meant to talk about the area directly between the speakers, and behind the speakers. Most of us have put rugs down in front of the speakers if we don't have carpet already. It's the 4-6' behind that line that I find often gets ignored because it's not a clear 1st reflection point. |
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