Low Cost Accoustic Diffusor and Treatments


I just finished setting up my listening room in a home we moved into a couple of months ago. And in the process a local audio installer noticed that my wife had a wooden type drawer and mentioned these work perfectly as diffusors.

You can find these online for $30 per, as compared to $600 per for similar looking panels custom built for the purpose.

I ordered a few on ebay, hung 3 on the back wall, and voila, better imaging and sound staging at a small fraction of the cost.

And the best part about it, was my wife, (a graphic designer) hung them for me she thought it was such a great idea.

Any other low cost, and attractive acoustic treatments you've used to tame your listening room?
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Showing 1 response by kevinzoe

I can only comment from my years of trial and error. But here are some ideas in no particular order:
* DIY is always less expensive (save for your time) and allows you to engineer it just right for your room and it's unique constraints.
* polyfusers (hemi cylindrical) stained in a rich color can look like architectural columns and will diffuse mods and high frequencies while absorbing low frequencies. These can e made by bending thin plywood or as I did (see my system for pics) use a Sonotube and cut it in half lengthwise to create a 180 degree arc, sand off the wax and then glue on a wooden veneer and stain.
* of course other geometrical shapes work too
* put wooden boards on piano hinges attached to a wall that allow you to open or close them to any angle so as to reflect reflections up and away or out to the side walls (see my system pic again).
* my artistic oriented friends think a Skyline diffuser looks like a really cool art project yet diffuses in two dimensions.

I can send you instructions on any of these DIY projects if you want. Hope this gets the creative juices flowing . . .