Tips for designing listening room from scratch
We had Chris Huston of rives custom design our Mastering and Post Production rooms in our basement. Granted they had 12' of ceiling heigth to work with. We built both using "room within room" method. We had Bob Hodas do the acoustical tuning afterwards. These are some of the best acoustics in the Pacific NW. Rives Audio Regards, |
Read Toole's 'Sound Reproduction' book before you do anything. Lots of information on home theatre considerations. Remember, the video is the easy part of the design, the audio the most difficult. Many years ago I did a room and it was a fustrating trial and error process. Information availbe today provides better chance of success. |
I recommend "Premium Home Theater: Design and Construction", by Earl Gedds. This is the best book I have found on the subject. Just ignore the video-centric chapters. The author is one of the world's foremost experts on small room acoustics and psychoacoustics. The first four chapters are online: http://www.gedlee.com/Home_theatre.htm Duke dealer/manufacturer |
