LOOKING TO IMPROVE THE ACOUSTICS OF MY LISTENING ROOM

Yup. GIK!

@hilde45 

I don’t believe the room was over damped at any time. It is just controlled. Most people are just used to hearing the colored sound that many reflections cause and they think that is the correct way to have the room. The sound was fantastic but I got to wondering what some diffusion would sound like. Jeff designed up the panels and told me exactly where to mount them. They did fill the room with sound better than without the panels but I could have been happy either way. 

I have had people come over and tell me my room is over damped when their system is in the corner of the  family room with windows and is open to other rooms with no control over anything. Or in the basement where their system comes in a distant second place to everything else.  

Here are two company's in NY to contact that will provide a pro design for a fee:

Truephonic (Steve Sockey)

WSDG (multiple designers)

Both are well regarded and design pro studios, listening rooms and theaters. 

There is no room that is acoustically correct without treatments. Rugs and drapes are not very good and could actually make your room to dead. You need a mix of absorption and diffusion. All corners will accumulate bass, this can be wall corners, soffit corners. Then there are 1st reflection points: in front of speakers on the floor, ceiling, side and the 1st reflection point for the opposite speaker.

The room is 1 of the most important pieces of an audio system