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Listening room setup + library

Hey there, 
I am thinking of remodeling a room. It should have two functions: listening / TV room and storing a lot of books. I think books are usually beneficial in a room since they can have positive effects on the sound so I hope this is possible. I made a first draft of what I would suggest. The room is rather small (3,45 x 4,75m or 11ft x 14ft). Without going into too much detail, do you think this is a good idea or are there big problems that are hard to solve? My first idea is to stuff the shelves with books, place some base traps in the front corners and put a big couch in the back with additional absorption above on the back wall. There is also the idea to integrate a window in the roof. Could this be a problem? Note that the shelves are in a U-shape and one side is not shown so the view is free. 

Thanks a lot for ideas and comments.
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dekay
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PS:

I used narrow (5 1/2") boards for the shelves.

It looks more like a floating wall of books, than like a bookshelf.

I installed deeper "standards" in a bedroom (whole wall - floor to ceiling), but didn't like the look and changed it up to the narrow 5 1/2" version.

Larger books go in the deeper more traditional closed back shelves and huge format books get stacked on top of the 3' high shelves.

DeKay
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dekay
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I installed "standard" bookshelves on the front/speaker wall of our living room (replacing closed back self standing cases) and there was a noticeable increase in sound quality.

We still have closed back self standing bookshelves on two other walls (one wall 6 footers and the other 3 footers/below and 8 foot wide window), but there is definitely something good going on with the open backed/edge standards on the speaker wall.

Something to consider, and perhaps someone acoustically knowledgable can explain why this is the case (in my case).

Instead of "tracked" standards perhaps an open backed built in design that is offset an inch, or so, from the wall?

DeKay



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