Building a house


In the design phase and planning on a dedicated listening room. Any advice on its construction, lessons learned?
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Neurop
Building a room as we speak. Couple of thoughts. Get the room dimensions as ideal as practical. Your challenge will always be bass management and keeping your noise away from the rest of the home. High ceiling is preferred. Generally speaking, steel joists are preferred over wood. 24” OC better than 16”.
For not much additional cost, frame room with 8, 10, or even 12” studs and plan to incorporate, integrate, bass traps into the walls, ceiling, floor etc to keep your room open as real estate is expensive. You will thank yourself later on. Bass management is one of most expensive elements to do correctly. Everyone’s advice is spot on from mass loaded vinyl, to double 5/8 gypsum, double walls if possible. Also, your weak link will be your windows. Tuff WAF, but best not to have any, especially at the listening level. Windows with STF’s above 50 will cost you. Door(s), 2 solid core doors separated by an air lock. Affordable. Try and float the floor with a sound absorbing mat, 2 layers of 3/4 ply and some green glue or similar in between if not on concrete. Don’t allow wall and floors to touch. Seperate by 1/8 to 1/4” and fill in with acoustical calk. Plug ALL penetrations (no jokes please), especially outlets with putty pads or similar. More details on line. Best. 

Be careful with the 12 foot ceiling dimension relative to the other two of the rectangular box.  Understand the difference between sound isolation (soundproofing) and acoustics.  Isolation is a science, acoustics an art. Only thing to add about isolation is close up every hole and gap with acoustic sealant and put seals on the door because that’s where the sound will escape. And don’t be surprised if the low frequencies still get out after doing all of the other soundproofing.  Design for flexibility in speaker placement and seating position.  If your room is 12x12x12 change it.  First time post from an architect. 
Room dimensions?
Two options:
1. Golden Ratio - Used in architecture
2. Fibonacci numbers - Used in Nature
Google them...
+1 consonance

Take a lot of pictures during the process, I mean a lot.  Takes very little
effort and you'll be glad you did at some point.  Use a tape measure to show stud locations.  Don't forget the ceiling!  You may need those for hanging acoustic treatments.  Have fun.

Regards,
barts