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In Reply to: Room treatments on a budget posted by audiogremlin on February 25, 2009 at 15:21:01:
The first room treatment is free: play around with speaker positioning and the listening position. If it's a dedicated room you have no constraints. You haven't said how large the room is and that is an issue but setup is where it all starts. If the room is square or almost so, consider diagonal placement also, with the speakers on adjacent walls and the listening position on a diagonal axis between them.
Jon Risch's quick and dirty bass traps are a good starting point for bass treatments. You can make panels for absorbing first reflections from fibreglass batts or semi-rigid boards if the side reflections are an issue.
Bookcases full of books can provide some useful absorption but it's not as broad band as a good commercial product but if you don't want things that look like acoustic treatments in your room, bookcases full of books at the first reflection points are a useful approach. Thick curtains on windows can work fine if there's a window at a first reflection point, or if there's large window areas. Open windows can be very effective bass traps and absorbers, actually the perfect absorber since sound that leaves the room doesn't return, but I would guess that's only a part year option in Calgary.
Good carpet or a large thick rug on the floor is invaluable.
David Aiken
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- RE: Room treatments on a budget - David Aiken 22:18:27 02/25/09 (3)
- RE: Room treatments on a budget - audiogremlin 07:58:27 02/26/09 (2)
- RE: Room treatments on a budget - David Aiken 12:09:22 02/26/09 (0)
- Side wall NT - lancelot 09:13:17 02/26/09 (0)
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