Cost to treat a room?


About how much should it cost to treat the average room? (without bass traps) I'm only worried about everything above 100hz. I have a sub and EQ for the lower frequencies.
nemesis1218
What does it cost? Well, doesn't that depend on what your room needs? If you can't define what problem you are trying to cure you are getting ahead of yourself to assume your room will just sound better by using commercially available treaatments. If you are not careful you could just end up spending a lot of money for the wrong stuff and end up with a room that sounds worse than it does now. And, to make matters even more interesting a lot of potential or real problems can be resolved by domestic furnishings strategically placed and or speaker set up.

Think it out................
$700-900, assuming you buy used. As newbee remarked, the challenge is to find out what the problem is. Lastly, every room needs to be treated as perfect rooms only exist for perfect people, all can be improved.
Above 100 Hz not all that difficult or pricy but for smaller rooms is worthwhile. In an earlier small(er) room setup I used 4 Corner Traps and 4 Tune traps together (cost was around 350-400) rather successfully (some of them now not needed and are for sale!). Experiment and Experiment!
GIK is great for the money. Real traps start getting pricey but they are well built, their web site is worth a visit just for the info on room treatment they provide.

Just start with the mirror points on each side wall between you and the speakers. Second is treatment behind the speakers.

One thing to think about is that you can't EQ bass room nulls, and using an eq to reduce peaks does not sound the same as reducing them with room treatments...a treated room will have faster time response.

So you may want to consider doing a low frequency treatment in corners behind the speakers in addition to the EQ.