Custom Build Listening Room


I am building a house with a 28' x 16' game room that I want to turn into a home theater / music room. The room is rectangular with three windows on one side and a coupple of doors on the other (at the long sides of the room). My equipment is Revel Salons, powered by ML 336, C30 and will get the Embraces powered by an HPA3 for center and surrounds. I would trully apreciate any recomendations (with the limited info given) as to any "treatments" to the room that would improve the final result.

Many thanks for all your comments!
dynasys

Showing 1 response by tom_nice

Another good place to start is with F. Alton Everest's "Sound Studio Construction on a Budget", which goes into all kinds of listening/recording rooms. You'd get the basics of room nodes there, and better understand the specific advice you can get elsewhere. If you're a DIY type at all, the book also goes into a lot of devices you can make to work for you above roughly 300 Hz. (I have DIY designs--please contact me if interested.) Rives, in a post today, suggests that some people--maybe all but hard case audiophiles--regard these, or at least most of them, as "ugly". I should mention that people who see mine and don't even know that they're in a listening room sometimes take them to be sculptures. I was amazed at this totally unexpected benefit, but won't turn it down. My versions of the RPG Skyline two-dimensional diffusors, in particular, seem to elicit this response. I'd have them however "ugly" they seemed to others, but happily this response is either nonexistent or suppressed out of politeness.