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In Reply to: RE: Quality door to listening room? posted by Fatbosco on March 09, 2008 at 12:01:56
Questions:
What do you mean by "good acoustically"? Are you trying to stop sound from escaping the room in order to prevent disturbing others elsewhere (soundproofing) or are you trying to do something about the quality of sound in the room (acoustic treatment). They aren't the same thing.
Is there a reason you're focussing on the door? I can understand that it what you're after is soundproofing but it seems a strange place to focus if you're interested in acoustic treatment unless you've already got a fair amount of treatment and you've identified the door as a remaining problem for some reason.
Light leakage? Is that a problem at the moment? Is the current door transparent or is it leaking light around the edges? If it's leaking light around the edges then probably weather stripping around the edges would help, and provide a better seal to the room which may also help with soundproofing and perhaps give a slight improvement in bass performance as well, though I wouldn't count on that. Is this a HT room that you're trying to keep dark?
It would seem on the face of it that just replacing the door with a solid door, perhaps a slightly better fit to prevent light leakage, would solve your problem but it's not all that clear what the problem is and what you're trying to achieve.
David Aiken
Follow Ups:
Is the door the biggest problem that my listening room has at the moment? Nope. But my current door has a gap at the bottom that allows light to enter the room. It is not a home theater, it is strictly for 2 channel cd listening. Call me odd, I listen to music in the dark, or near dark. I could maybe put a door sweep(gasket?)on the bottom, but I started thinking that for a benjamin I may be able to fix the light leak, and at the same time improve my room sound, if even an Iota. Thanks again.
> > But my current door has a gap at the bottom that allows light to enter the room. < <In most homes, this is intentional. If you have central HVAC, the gap at the bottom of the door is used as an air return. If you eliminate the gap and don't provide another method of air return for the HVAC system, you will find that your HVAC system will no longer work in your listening room when the door is closed.
Hey Racer,
Lets say that ones heat only HVAC system drives one crazy and there is plenty of heat from the amps.
Closing off the doors as you say would stop the HVAC in that room. WOuld it hurt the system at all?
Unless the room you want to close off contains the main air return, or is so large that closing it off will cause your heat system to lose significant efficiency, then closing it off shouldn't cause any problems. If you can disconnect or block off the duct to that room, even better. If you have flex ducts, you can disconnect the duct at the source and block off the outlet. A piece of sheet metal cut to fit with tin snips, and some metallized HVAC tape (NOT duct tape!!!) will do the trick. If your ducts are solid, you can do the same thing at the outlet in the room. Blocking up the duct will also reduce noise transmission. If you block it at the room outlet, it might be helpful to use some soundboard or plenum-rated acoustic foam on the back of the sheet metal to further damp sound transmission.
d
Thanks to everyone that took a moment to respond, I believe I may go with the exterior door. I do have a separate air return in the room, but I had no idea the gaps were intentional. I appreciate all the things I learn in the forums!
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