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My new room is 8 x 16 x 32, what to do?

My room in my new house is very close to 8 x 16 x 32. I’m going to have to do something serious to treat it. It is concrete floor, brick walls, and plaster ceiling. It is empty now and it is difficult to talk to someone as it echos for several seconds.

I might build a wall at one end to change the 32 to 26 so the width and length are the golden ratio (16 x 1.62 = 26) but what to do with the height? If use the golden ratio with an 8 foot ceiling I end up 8 x 13 x 21 and I don’t want to lose all that space. I need a 10 foot ceiling for a 16 foot width but I don't think that is going to happen.

If I deaden the rear wall does it really matter how long the room is? Any ideas?
herman

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onhwy61
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Don't do anything until after you have setup your system and furnished the room. Empty rooms are notoriously deceiving about how they actually sound. It's only after you've experimented with how the room really sounds and how sensitive it and you are to changes in placement of equipment/listener can you start to devise a successful plan to correct any problems.

BTW, great sounding rooms don't have to conform to golden ratios.
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