No, it's not a fix for low frequency issues, and I didn't mean to suggest it was. It's a relatively cheap and simple fix for a too-lively room, especially if the room already has some natural difffusing elements like bookshelves, furniture and carpets. It can improve focus and imaging. It's a good place to start if you're on a budget.
Room treatments and acoustics…. How to begin?
Hello,
I have spent the past year and a half going to town. I have mindfully and exuberantly engaged with every aspect of my system, with one exception… acoustics and room treatments.
I have a 14’x18’ x8’ high living room that is also my current listening room. I live in New York City, queens, and am an architectural designer with some fabrication ability. I am just beginning to get privy to how to approach acoustics and room treatments and find it fascinating. I would very much like to do the following:
-maximize the room acoustics in my living room, while maintaining or enhancing its visual appeal
-begin learning about acoustics as a whole, so that I may lean into designing architectural spaces intertwined with hifi listening..,, ie: large volume chamber woofers and open baffles incorporated into the architecture, even speakers partially or entirely cast into the floor walls or ceiling.
how to begin?
thanks for your insight and inspirations, fellow obsessives…!
r
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I built a simple iOS app called HiFi Setup to help with speaker placement and bass integration using in-room sweeps. It gives a bass flatness score, flags peaks/nulls, and suggests placement or PEQ adjustments. Here’s a link to the YouTube short HiFi Setup Should be available on the App Store soon. |
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