Feedback on Costco & Amazon sound absorption panels from folks who have purchased them.


Greetings.  My wife & I have purchased a new home (to us) and I am extremely fortunate enough to be getting a 19 X 21 foot room for my stereo.  The home is getting all new vinyl plank flooring throughout.  This rooms floor will have a nice large area rug of some sort to help with sound control.  My wife has been searching around for wall treatments and found the Artika panels at Costco and a plethora of choices on Amazon.   Looking for input on users and if you are happy with your choices.  I need to keep it aesthetically pleasing so no chunks of foam glued to the wall.  System is: Krell FPB300cx amp, KCT pre and Infinity Renaissance 90 speakers for reference,

Thanks for any input to a regular guy that just happens to dig quality sound. -John

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I just did my sound room with the Artika from Costco. It has been done for about 1 month and am very pleased with the sound of the room and the aesthetics. This is also my living room so had quite a bit of cutouts to do for tv, brackets etc. These panels were easy to form to any situation I needed just using a tape measure, razor knife and jig saw. My first round was using the 3m command strips and doing a systematic trial and error and developed a pattern that was very effective music wise and also withstood my OCD for symmetry. When I was satisfied, I used a little all-purpose spray glue and drywall screws. Cost was about $600 as I wasted some material. I was replacing foam egg carton style mounted on cardboard which did a good job of taking out my echo but made the room deader than I liked. The Artika was like popping your ears after a steep road climb with your radio on. I forgot how dead the room was after so many years. Hoped this helped and good luck.