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Panels to treat a vaulted ceiling?

My listening room is 16x23 with a vaulted ceiling, hard floors, hard walls and sometimes hard to listen to. I listen across the short side of the room using only 2/3 of the width leaving the highest part of the ceiling about a foot to the right of the right speaker. Book shelves and a large rug have tamed the floor and walls. All is well at low listening levels but how do I control the ring and echo that 400 square feet of ceiling produce at high listening levels. This is the only room that gives me a problem. I saw the spell check thread a while back and hope I have not misspelled ceiling a half a dozen times.
Thanks for any suggestions.
griswold
whknopp0713
179 posts
 
You might try RPG Skylines. They can even be (spray) painted to match the ceiling. I don't have them on the ceiling, but I liked their effect behind my listening position. I also found that RoomTunes corner diffusers are an inexpensive improvement. I think EchoBuster makes something similar. If you fear this kind of death-by-a-thousand-cuts approach, go for Tube Traps, which fix anything, but they are expensive.
flex
292 posts
 
another comment after my above post -
Don't buy anything until you have diagnosed the problem. If you equip yourself with strips of material e.g towels, rags, or even cheap foam pads of reasonable thickness and spend a day taping it to various parts of the walls, ceiling, and floors, you can zero in on what surfaces produce the echo and ring.
flex
292 posts
 
It's also worth checking what the effect is of putting proper bass traps in the room corners, particularly front corners. Can help with bass reverb. They can be made inexpensively (aa links) or borrowed for the purpose.
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