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Room treatment - for open plan area
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<blockquote data-quote="Baseline" data-source="post: 1120440" data-attributes="member: 14307"><p>I have to disagree with the advice above in light of the fact that we have too little information. A photo or two of the area would be helpful. For instance, if the listening room has a bare floor (tiles, hard wood etc), curtains would actually help with sound absorbtion. Think of old cinemas / theatres, heavy velvet curtains were used between the foyer and the theatre with great effect in reducing sound spillage into the foyer and visa versa. Personally, I prefer carpets, curtains, soft furnishings and art canvasses on walls to treat a room acoustically rather than professional acoustic panels which can be too effective at times and not exactly appropriate in a domestic setting. It is after all your lounge, not a recording studio. The exception would be the use of diffusers which have an artistic look to them naturally.</p><p>As per the illustration above, it looks like an awkward layout and on the surface of it, it would seem like swapping the listening area with the dining area would make for an easier space to setup as you would essentially only need to erect some kind of room divider across where the blue block is. Having the dining area directly off the kitchen also makes better sense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Baseline, post: 1120440, member: 14307"] I have to disagree with the advice above in light of the fact that we have too little information. A photo or two of the area would be helpful. For instance, if the listening room has a bare floor (tiles, hard wood etc), curtains would actually help with sound absorbtion. Think of old cinemas / theatres, heavy velvet curtains were used between the foyer and the theatre with great effect in reducing sound spillage into the foyer and visa versa. Personally, I prefer carpets, curtains, soft furnishings and art canvasses on walls to treat a room acoustically rather than professional acoustic panels which can be too effective at times and not exactly appropriate in a domestic setting. It is after all your lounge, not a recording studio. The exception would be the use of diffusers which have an artistic look to them naturally. As per the illustration above, it looks like an awkward layout and on the surface of it, it would seem like swapping the listening area with the dining area would make for an easier space to setup as you would essentially only need to erect some kind of room divider across where the blue block is. Having the dining area directly off the kitchen also makes better sense. [/QUOTE]
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