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Room Treatment: Whatcha Got?

As I learn (Bertrand Russel would say 'as I expand my ignorance') I'm developing a different question to ask of audiophile friends. [ought I say phriends? No!]

Now, instead of asking what gear they listen to, or if they like vinyl, I'm really interested in their room; is it treated, or not? And what technique(s) / how much time is invested in setting up?

That's it: despite the current cover of Stereophile, size no longer matters to me, neither do components at this point. I don't even care about CD / TT until I've learned what effort a listener has put into working the room.

What's your story?
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mechans
3,048 posts
 
My listening space is baffled with a complex admixture of adorbing absorbing a complex reflective facades creating a very halographic but not numb overdamped anechoic chamber. Keep it lively. a lot like Jloveys but piles of useless stuff all over.
883dave
50 posts
 
Designed and treated with ASC products, took a couple of weeks to develop and a couple of days to install. One of, if not the best upgrade to date
883dave
50 posts
 
Designed and treated with ASC products, took a couple of weeks to develop and a couple of days to install. One of, if not the best upgrades to date
dan_ed
2,451 posts
 
Who needs treatments? I just turn the volume up more. :-)

I like Jloveys' approach also. He is breaking up the reflections with good decorating choices. I can't say that is what I've done and I don't have much room for additional furniture. After finding some recipes online I have made many bass traps. About 12 circular and 5 panel type. It has helped my room quite a bit, and believe me the room needs help being the typical finished basement with drop ceiling. Now that I have most of my system together I may try some commercial products to see if they are even better. ASC, GIK, RealTraps are all good places to checkout.
rhljazz
1,250 posts
 
I have an unconventional room which does not allow for the normal treatments you see in the application guides from the various purveyors of acoustic treatments. It has required over six months of trial and error with various panels from GIK and Acoustical Solutions placed in different locations. I use a combination of 2", 4", 6" thick GIK absorber panels along with Acoustical solutions diffusor panels. There are also four 9"x6' ASC tube traps near each corner boundary.
The room has thick carpet on a concrete floor and sheetrock walls. The left wall is pretty much all windows with wood shutters over them. The front wall has french doors in the middle with an entry foyer behind where I have placed two of the big GIK traps. The back wall has one large GIK trap up in the right hand corner and the remainder of the back wall are four 2'x2' diffusor panels. The right wall has some 2" GIK panels up high on the partial wall that separates the living area from kitchen/dining along with two big GIK traps atop the plant shelf.
I keep improving on a "less than ideal" room. The acoustic treatments do result in improved sound and imaging. I'm mostly done but still have a few ideas I'd like to try. Unfortunately it is expensive if you buy 500.00 worth of product and it doesn't work out.
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