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Building a basement room from scratch: What to do about lally post?

Posted by Jeff P. (A) on January 23, 2006 at 12:28:17

Hi,

I just moved into a house recently that has an unfinished basement. My plan is to build a room down there to use as a home studio and listening room.

The block of space I have to work with is approximately 16' x 24'10" (with a height of about 7'9" up to the bare ceiling beams). I think the space will work as a starting point, but one thing is worrying me: there's a lally post (steel support pole) close to the middle of the space (actually about 9'7" away from the wall into the 16" width, and and 12' 5", or halfway, into the 24' 10" length).

I've been wondering if this will be a practical and/or acoustical problem. I just have visions of it being too close to my listening chair or speakers, I guess. Aesthetically, I'm not too worried (there are some rather attractive finishing options for the pole, it seems) ... But has anyone ever come up against the same issue? What have you done about it, if anything?

One idea I had was the build a wall to hide the pole, and have two smaller 12' x 16' rooms (one for the home studio, one for the listening room). But I was really hoping to have a larger space. The listening room/studio in my last house was 10' x 13' x 7', and I'd really like to have a bigger room this time.

I really wish I could just get rid of the pole, but I don't think that's an option. So what would be less acoustically disastrous: having the pole close to the listening chair (say, slightly behind it), or somewhere slightly behind and in between the speakers?

Thanks for any thoughts or help.

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