Is room treatment a science?


What dictates room treatment?  
Many options are available but trial and error can be pricey. I'm a happy tweeker  seeking knowledge and experiences.
Thank You for your thoughts. Long live HiFi !
tomavodka

Showing 3 responses by erik_squires

So in the scientific view of acoustics we have a lot of different waves propagating back and forth across the room. Our scientific goal is to minimize the cancellations and reinforcements in order to hear the original signal as clear and undistorted as possible.

Miller just described an anechoic measurement chamber.  Hahahahahaha.


My two suggestions are, talk to GIK Acoustics or learn everything in Floyd Toole's book:  Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms


https://amzn.to/35WboEV


and ignore the trial and error people. :)


Best,

E
Yes.  Room acoustics is a science and is written about by much smarter and more accomplished people than I.  I like to read Floyd Toole when I want to pretend I'm smart.  Otherwise I ask GIK Acoustics for advice.

I will say after lots of measurement and experimentation that treating your room well is never a mistake. My room treatments have outlived everything else I own. It is by far more productive to treat the room than start swapping speakers, cables and amps.