A lot of good info already provided. The part mentioned about over doing it with absorbers is of the most importance as it happened to me. Bottom line, a combo of bass traps, absorbers, absorbers/diffusers and diffusers in the right combination will get you the optimum results. What that combination is will be specific to your room. It's basically like equipment, cables, fuses, etc... There is not one for all fit. The best I can help anyone with is to take a look at my house of stereo acoustic setup under my details, system.
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I have every square inch of my walls covered with 5” of rock wool, and every square inch of my ceiling covered with 14” of rock wool. The floors mostly covered either Moroccan cotton rugs I have a very dead, semi-anechoic room. It works perfectly. You can hear the difference when you walk in, before any music is played. So I am wondering what you mean by overdoing it? |
@unreceivedogma signs a room is overtreated...the room feels emotionally uncomfortable as our brains expect reflections...you start removing absorption and find improvement...the room feels overly warm due to a scarcity of high frequency wavelengths...the room sounds smaller than it actually is. |
An over dampened, deadend, etc room results in a test chamber is not generally an optimal listening environment. The best results are with a combination of treatments that allow life into the music so it sounds more natural to the space it was recorded in. Thus, there might not be a perfect way to do this as music is recorded in quite a wide range of places, studios, live venues outdoors, concert halls, etc. If you take the time to study the subject then use the minimal amount of bass traps, diffusers and absorbers to get to the place where it sounds the best to you for your tastes in the variety of music you listen to then that is perfect, for you. Rick
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