LOOKING TO IMPROVE THE ACOUSTICS OF MY LISTENING ROOM


I am looking to improve the acoustics of my listening room located in Nassau County, New York. I have installed drapes, an area rug and not sure how to proceed further. Do I need absorption, diffusion, tube traps in corners? Not sure of any of  this. I am looking for someone to come to my music room and help me. I believe I need an acoustic engineer who has the knowledge to show me what objectively needs to be done to meet my goals. Willing to pay a reasonable hourly for advice. Many audiogon members have stated that if the listening room is deficient, changing equipment will not be the final answer.   Thank you. 

 

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Showing 1 response by bimmerlover

I was in your situation and what I did was use GIK’s online resources and they had a sound engineer working with me. It’s basically free and relevant consulting.

 

On their website, you request a free recommendations/estimation and you submit drawings with measurements and photos.

 

Naturally, the more detailed your drawing(s), and the more photos you can provide the better and more accurate their recommendations can be.

 

I think this will give you a very good, if not final so at least a solid first, idea about what type of treatments, absorbers/bass traps versus diffusers, for example would be useful for you.

 

like many things, I think it’s the 80/20 rule – you can get quite far this way and then you need to spend a whole lot more time, money and effort to get further but the nice thing is that you can decide on that later, after you’ve taken this first step

 

 

Good luck.