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Advice Please : DIY acoustic panels

Hi,

I am looking to build some cheap acoustic panels. Currently I've some carpet runners hanging from the wall directly behind the maggies 1.6 . The carpets are butt ugly and everyone while commenting on how good the system sounds, never fail to mention how bad the carpets look.

I would to build some panels that can be hung from the wall and can absorb the sound produced by the back panel of the maggie and also that are easy on the eyes. Hopefully I should be able to buy the material from the local HD or lowes.

Can anyone who have built such panels, tell me how to go about it?

Thanks in advance,
C
cacophonix

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photon46
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Ok, go to Jon Risch's website: www.geocities.com/jonrisch/index2.htm . There you will find every thing you need to get you started. I too have Maggie 1.6's and found the addition of these diy panels to be a very significant upgrade to my system. One of the best returns on a modest investment of time and money I ever made. I have a room with 12' ceilings that has a 2' tall ''plant shelf' around the perimeter. I installed 2 traps 20"x6' x 4" thick above the speakers in the plant shelf and 2 more traps the same height and width, but 6" thick in the plant shelf above the listening position. The two behind the speakers made the biggest improvement. I also built the diy "room lens" project and installed them behind the speaker's high frequency panels. This project takes a little more skill and more tools to execute well, but it also is a very worthwhile expenditure of time. You will get much better high frequency reproduction and dispersion in my experience.
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