Sean's advice is good, as usual, but I'd say it's imperative to read F. Alton Everest's "Sound Studio Construction on a Budget" (which covers all kinds of rooms, listening rooms in particular). He believes in diffusion, not only absorption, and that has worked beautifully for me. If you can go the DIY route, I have instructions for DIY RPG-style diffusors and Argent Room Lens copies that I could email or snail mail to you, but you'd need a table saw for either. But if you don't yet know what an RPG-style diffusor is, read Everest first. Jon Risch's bass trap looks trickier to make, to me, than a perforated panel absorber, details in Everest. You can turn your bad room into a good one, in all likelihood. Everest also shows you how to identify resonant modes that may need to be "trapped", minimized, by bass traps or panel absorbers. That book, like his 4th edition of "The Master Handbook of Acoustics" is must audiophile reading, IMHO.
need help-how to build sound absorber, deffusive
Since I moved to the new room, my system sounds so bad that I don't listen to the music anymore. It realy hurts my ears. My new room is hardwood floor, I put a good size rug in front of the speakers, put the speakers on the stands, and some live plants behind the speakers. It helped but the low and the mid bass are muggy. I know there is a lot of room accoustic material that could help, but I can't afford them. Does anyone build their own bass trap and sound deffusive? Would you please show me how to build one and tell me what materials to use and where to purchase them?
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