Do I need acoustic foam in my listening room?


I'm buying a new house and plan to build a listening room in the basement. The room will be (approximately) 14 feet wide and 16 feet deep with an 8 foot ceiling. There will be carpet on the floor and the room will be closed in with French doors on one side.

The speakers will be sitting close to 3 feet from the front wall and there will be at least 3 feet behind the couch. I have a sub that I place betwen the two speakers.

Will acoustic foam help with the sound? Do I need bass traps? If so, how would you arrange the panels?

Thanks

//jim
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Showing 1 response by stevecham

Lenrd bass traps from Auralex in the front corners will help tremendously in taming the megaphone effect from those areas of your room and will even out the reponse. Also I use the small 2 inch thick 1 foot sq panels on top of my bookcase where noone can see them and I think they help.

In my recording studio I cover about 30% of the walls with 2 inch thick 2 x 4 foot panels and this quiets the ping effect from drywall to a great degree. I am able to obtain good soundstaging while monitoring and that translates well to other playback systems and formats.