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Room Treatment Surprise

I have really lousy dimensions for my listening room ... 10x10x8. I use B&W N804s and recently added a subwoofer. Then, I got the bright idea to treat the room with corner bass traps and a few other items from GIK Acoustics. This has proved to be a huge upgrade, probably better than at new component. I find that I no longer need to use the subwoofer unless the recording is bad sonically, in which case a little overall boost is necessary. Has anyone else experienced this type of thing?
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drummermitchell
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Yep,you can put 5 figured gear in a tiled bathroom or a gym and add all those BS cables and it will still sound like crap.
Do the room with acoustic panels and its end of story but without the 5 figures and the BS cables.
I use RealTraps exclusively now as I changed out some 244's(which did clean up the mid/highs).
The RT HF mondos actually gave me more of the reverb effects that were on the recording,I was quite surprised how much more there was on those same recordings.
I did the gear first yrs ago and then the room,course now I have both,so I guess a win/win.
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drummermitchell
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Tboooe, As my room is on the small side 12x19,I went with the Mondo's(6")thick for the extra bass trapping.
2'X2' module on the bottom and 2'x4'Mondo on top.
They sit on top of each other so no more holes in the walls.
Plus I spaced them away from the wall boundaries(4")for more free trapping.
The HF Mondos are at speaker reflections(two per side)the rest are the regular Mondos.
17 stacked Mondo modules in all an she's not to dead.
Three diffusor modules on the back wall.
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