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Bright room, help

I'm relatively new to high end and need some help.

I have my set up in a vaulted living room with hardwood floors and lots of sheetrock (damn those parallel walls!). Not a lot of furniture and what I do have is leather. I need some simple inexpensive ideas to warm the room up a bit, without detracting from the decor. It's very bright and brings on fatigue sooner than I'd like.

Any ideas Audiogonners???

Thanks,

Steve
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seandtaylor99
1,262 posts
 
Hang some nice decorative rugs on the wall. Kana813 offers good advice. Here's another great site on positioning

http://www.audiophysic.de/produkte/aufstellung/aufstellung_e.html

Also try a rug on the floor, (with non-slip backing of course). Rugs on the front and back walls will tame brightness and on the side walls will improve imaging.
natalie
404 posts
 
Your source is probably the culprit more than the room. It would help to know what your gear is.
sean
6,231 posts
 
That is a good point Natalie. While sparsely furnished rooms with highly reflective acoustics can play havoc with what we hear, treating a room of this nature would only help to band-aid or cover up what might be a system that suffered from severe tonal imbalance. Knowing what components made up the system might give us more to work with. Sean
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jd798ff8
55 posts
 
I'm not good at plant names, but large, leafy plants do a great job of acting as diffusers while they purify your air and give your room a little more "soul".
sayas
193 posts
 
Rule #1

The best equipment can and typically will sound like sh!t with a poor room. Acoustics of a room come before gear.
J A Pan gear can sound better than the most expensive gear if it has a great room and the best not.

I like the leafy plant idea given above as the plants will absorb AND add humidity, which also helps to remove some of the liveness of a room.

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