My new room is 8 x 16 x 32, what to do?

Here is an Excel sheet that is very helpful for calculating room nodes:

Excel Sheet on Ultimate AV

You can enter your seating positiong to find out whether you are sitting in a null or at a maximum. Also, you can enter your speaker position in place of the seating position to find out whether you are placing the speaker at a maximum or null. Just make sure you or your speaker are not sitting 4 feet or 8 feet from the walls otherwise you will have huge suckouts at 70 Hz. Note: If you place speakers on the long wall enter the 16 feet as length and 32 feet as width.

Good luck - it is not the best room but better than a 8 x 8 x 8 room ;) or most small rooms for that matter. Many of the above suggestions are good ones. To treat bass problems in this room you would need bass traps, big ones.

Good luck!

Rene

hi herman:

you could put a hardowood floor over the concrete floor. i have a listening room which has a concrete floor. i added a plywood floor over it and a carpet over that. obviously, you may not want to place a carpet in your basement, but you may be able to treat your floor in other ways.

i too have a basement but i won't put my equipment in my basement.

Gosh, thats a whole apartment with 2 bedrooms in Europe!lol

Listen first then adjust.