Most rooms don’t need acoustical treatment.

I think if people understood basics of what happens to a sound wave and what reverb means, the accoustical trade profession would collapse.

It aint that complex.  Heres what you need to know.

dont want reflected sound interfering with fist waves from a speaker. They collide and muddy sound.  Solution, buy an absorp panel.

buy a diffuser panel to also improve clarity without deadening all the sound. Why does it work?  It scatters sound better to room. Less collisions. Makes room seem bigger.

there it is, most of what i wished i knew alot earler.

it aint that complex, unless u want it to be.

Power cords in a stable supply of power seem like snake oil.  Other things are better pursued.

Maybe i purchase abunch of foam bass traps off amazon for about 50 bucks and see what happens.  Not much to lose.  Anybody use these?

Lone mountain, live music is what it is, and sometimes really great sq.

i am talking about crappy studio efforts. Accoustic treatments will improve crappy recordings, but wont make all crappiness go away.

Inner Window sil shelves are cool? Ceiling tiles needed?

Ok, now I learn more.

absorption done by couch rug and curtains, yeah.

but seems that diffusers have great value,  ie.  They scatter and add clarity to sound waves, and make room seem bigger.  It’s mystical, no one knows why but this seems good.  A panel will do better than a bookcase, so I buy diffuser.

Diffusers?  What about 1d (lateral) vs 2d (scatter).

wouldnt 1 d be best if ceilings are flat?  Why bounce scattered waves off a ceiling???

Any good aps that can evaluate room accoustics?

saw one called clapIR but didnt understand graphs created

The balance between absorbers and diffusers, scattering vs avoidance of coliding sound waves.  
And then the focus should be an understanding of which frequencies are handled by each panel.

no one talks about this

Mr lemonhaze,
thanks for your thoughtfulness. 
I need to learn more about bass freqs.  So much too learn.

Does a bass trap absorb bass (ie.reduce amount of bass heard in a room) or make bass better? Will i hear improvement in bass? Thanks

Makes sense, thanks,


bass traps seem relatively small. Is it just alittle goes a long way? Or an ample amount of bass traps will be more beneficial? How much is too much?

Tooo damn complicated.  Brilliance is the ability to paint complex things in simple terms.  Very few succeed. 
And then enter all the variations of recording qualities that endlessly frustrate.  If only 60s and 70s music were produced presently.  So we fall back and listen to just a few names that bring us comfort over and over again.