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Do I need acoustic foam in my listening room?

I'm buying a new house and plan to build a listening room in the basement. The room will be (approximately) 14 feet wide and 16 feet deep with an 8 foot ceiling. There will be carpet on the floor and the room will be closed in with French doors on one side.

The speakers will be sitting close to 3 feet from the front wall and there will be at least 3 feet behind the couch. I have a sub that I place betwen the two speakers.

Will acoustic foam help with the sound? Do I need bass traps? If so, how would you arrange the panels?

Thanks

//jim
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hotsauce
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The 2 common types of traps are foam, or rockwool based. The foam is more effective on higher frequency, the rockwool is more dense, and better for lower frequency control.

Try to plot the response of your room before you apply any fix. Adding foam to a room with a really bad low freq spike won't show as much improvement as a real bass trap.

John C.
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