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Acoustics & Room Treatment
Is it time for proper room treatment?
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<blockquote data-quote="Shonver" data-source="post: 1076968" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>A problem with compact homes is that your lounge is usually your listening space, and it also serves the purpose of a social space and even a transition area - interconnecting different areas in the home. This makes it difficult to implement standard acoustic treatments such as absorptive and diffractive panels and also central listening arrangments. If you have these constraints, alternative remedies may include installing full-length heavy curtains, installing thick* carpet (even thin ones and rugs help a little bit) and arranging the furniture symmetrically around the speakers.</p><p>* <em>by thick I mean with underfelt</em>.</p><p></p><p>One of the problems that may be encountered is having an open space next to one front speaker and a wall adjacent to the other. This will have a significant impact on sound stage. The wall will required first reflection point treatment - panel or heavy curtain.</p><p></p><p>The worst kind of acoustic flaw is slap echo. You can get a good idea of it by doing a hand clap and listening to how long the sound takes to decay after the clap. Here, any form of sound absorption will bring improvement. One of my dreams projects is to install a "latte" (cane) ceiling with absorptive material behind it. Might even work as a wall.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shonver, post: 1076968, member: 34"] A problem with compact homes is that your lounge is usually your listening space, and it also serves the purpose of a social space and even a transition area - interconnecting different areas in the home. This makes it difficult to implement standard acoustic treatments such as absorptive and diffractive panels and also central listening arrangments. If you have these constraints, alternative remedies may include installing full-length heavy curtains, installing thick* carpet (even thin ones and rugs help a little bit) and arranging the furniture symmetrically around the speakers. * [i]by thick I mean with underfelt[/i]. One of the problems that may be encountered is having an open space next to one front speaker and a wall adjacent to the other. This will have a significant impact on sound stage. The wall will required first reflection point treatment - panel or heavy curtain. The worst kind of acoustic flaw is slap echo. You can get a good idea of it by doing a hand clap and listening to how long the sound takes to decay after the clap. Here, any form of sound absorption will bring improvement. One of my dreams projects is to install a "latte" (cane) ceiling with absorptive material behind it. Might even work as a wall. [/QUOTE]
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