alitomr1979
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Hello all,
After installing about 16 square feet of acoustic panels in first reflection points of the side walls and in the rear wall, I am now really interested in something Inwas supposed to do long ago: treating mu dedicated listening room / home Theater.
It is a tiny 11’ by 10’ room, with 8’ 6” height ceiling, all concrete walls, and tile floors. Hyper reflective.
I have been reading about sound treatments and ordered a few foam bass traps because the big ones are not possible now because of space constraints, and some due cable management. What I did get was more of the Rhino Acoustic panels because I now realized the reflections were killing the sound. Something really interesting is that i didn’t even notice how much treble energy was in the room. I just could not identify the problem and it became evident as I kept installing these 1 squared feet panels.
Now I want a few for my office, and order a few of those hexagonal ones for my bedroom.
But the question I have now is for my dedicated listening room, and I have it because I haven’t found nothing particularly conclusive about it: should I treat the front walls, behind the speakers, with absorption or diffusion or should I just leave them as they are?
Leaving them as they are is almost out of the question because after being marveled by the LS50 Meta I am very interested in listening to rooms and speakers with good absorption behind. If most of the improvement from the metas come from the meta material, even with that amazing, practically inert cabinet in the LS50, I just assume there should be great benefits to get by suppressing sound that’s sent back front the speaker, to the front wall.
I am thinking about getting the best stereo listening possible in my setup.
I have a pair of R3 with dual stereo SB2000. MLP is almost a equilateral 8-9 feet triangle. I treated the rear wall because Inkept hearing lots of reflwctions from there, as I sit at roughly 1 feet about from it, and I used 4 panels in the first reflections in each side wall.
What is your take on front wall treatments?
After installing about 16 square feet of acoustic panels in first reflection points of the side walls and in the rear wall, I am now really interested in something Inwas supposed to do long ago: treating mu dedicated listening room / home Theater.
It is a tiny 11’ by 10’ room, with 8’ 6” height ceiling, all concrete walls, and tile floors. Hyper reflective.
I have been reading about sound treatments and ordered a few foam bass traps because the big ones are not possible now because of space constraints, and some due cable management. What I did get was more of the Rhino Acoustic panels because I now realized the reflections were killing the sound. Something really interesting is that i didn’t even notice how much treble energy was in the room. I just could not identify the problem and it became evident as I kept installing these 1 squared feet panels.
Now I want a few for my office, and order a few of those hexagonal ones for my bedroom.
But the question I have now is for my dedicated listening room, and I have it because I haven’t found nothing particularly conclusive about it: should I treat the front walls, behind the speakers, with absorption or diffusion or should I just leave them as they are?
Leaving them as they are is almost out of the question because after being marveled by the LS50 Meta I am very interested in listening to rooms and speakers with good absorption behind. If most of the improvement from the metas come from the meta material, even with that amazing, practically inert cabinet in the LS50, I just assume there should be great benefits to get by suppressing sound that’s sent back front the speaker, to the front wall.
I am thinking about getting the best stereo listening possible in my setup.
I have a pair of R3 with dual stereo SB2000. MLP is almost a equilateral 8-9 feet triangle. I treated the rear wall because Inkept hearing lots of reflwctions from there, as I sit at roughly 1 feet about from it, and I used 4 panels in the first reflections in each side wall.
What is your take on front wall treatments?