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Advice on dedicated room

Hi everyone ,

I am going to start building my dedicated listening room in the basement soon and need some input. My ceiling is just under 8’ so would 2x4s be adequate for strength or would 2x6 be better? Second , I read an article where Robert Harley was building a new room and used the ISO wall system from acoustic sciences and was wondering if anyone here has used it and liked it. I will at the least use 2 layers of drywall and green glue. Lastly my space available is 15’x16 1/2’. I know that is too square and I can shorten the 15’ direction if needed but if we’re to put a 45 degree angle on two corners ( one corner is needed for access to another area) would that negate the “too square” aspect? Thanks for your input 
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Agree 100% with millercarbon:

This small a room will also make it more important than ever that you use a distributed bass array and Townshend Podiums and Pods for isolation. The DBA will make your small room sound huge, and isolation will greatly diminish the rooms impact on the sound by energizing it less. Money spent on these will far outweigh a lot of much more expensive acoustic treatment.

I have had nothing but excellent results with a DBA in 4 different rooms (two of them smaller than yours).
Though I have yet to try isolation podiums or pods, I also got great results isolating with springs under each of my mains and also under each of my 4 subwoofers.

@artemus_5 +1:

Or set up the system in the corner facing diagonally into the room and leave the size as is.
I have a 15’ x 15’ exact square room set up very similar to figure 2 at: DECWARE - Article about Setting up a Listening Room without Treatments
If not for experimenting with this diagonal placement, I probably would have given up on the room.
Very noticeable improvement over anything I tried regarding "traditional" speaker placement.

Lots of great advice in this thread.
Great thread too! I’m sure a lot will benefit from the many great contributions.

OP - Best of luck to you on this journey!


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