No "Room Correction" Topic option. Why?


I wanted to pose a question on room mods but do not see a logical place
to insert it so I am going with "Speakers" as a good, wrong choice.
Moderators, can you attend to this deficiency? 

My question: I am redoing my listening room in several ways.
Not because it was bad-quite the contrary. But because the room 
was a dark hole so I bought three new windows and replacement door.
The existing wall allowed rain water in from the patio floor outside.

 I started dismantling a 20' section of wall. As I opened the wall i found the
existing base plate-not treated wood, to be dust. Then mold on the drywall.
then termite evidence. 

Once the old crap was gone, I poured a concrete base plate 20 feet and another 6 feet
on the return. Termite damage had trashed the double sill plate and parts of two joists.

With all the wiring exposed I discovered an abandoned 220 a/c line buried in the wall.
Voila!  I had 2 dedicated 110v outlets for another part of the room. 

Might as well add 5 can lights while I was at it.

I upgraded the Streaming ethernet line from cat 5 to cat 7. Might as well
since I had sawsalled thru the old line. 
Then I learned that fiber is a better bet so I will be changing that later.

Another find! A buried abandoned entry door offering a 30" x 80" x 10" shelving
opportunity! 

I started this task by removing the old carpeting.

Now to my question. 

Shall I go with new porcelain tile flooring and plan on area rug -or-
put carpet back for its superior sound absorbing properties?

I hope someone out there has been down this road and has
an experience to share?

Thank you!


chorus

Showing 3 responses by mahgister

I guess i was lucky or more diligent in my working experiments....

My speakers sound marvellously well in a bad location and in a bad room...

Active device controls and not only passive materials are the key....You can use a computer to compute the nodes where to put the reflective and absorbant materials, but we must use our ears with the powerful active devices to decide how to connect them and with what and where to put them ( different resonators connected to Schumann generators).

Not only that but my 7 inches driver gives so much clear bass that i listen to with my body then a sub was really without interest... I disconnect the one i own, and i purchase it before my experiments....I listen mainly acoustic music....Cello, organ,piano and human voices.... No need of speakers management controls, perhaps to improve my results a bit for sure , but not more....I want to try the speaker mangement controls understand me, but my active room controls are so good that it will be ONLY to optimize what is already more than good...

No sibilant, clear bass, and imaging and decoupling music sound from the speakers.... That are my results....

Cost : peanuts.....



I will not annoy the reader in reexplaining what i said today in an another thread...i already said too much....

:)

« Why do you trust your ears more than a computer? Because we make love together in the old way» - Groucho Marx
Acoustical embedding are the more important..... More than mechanical and electrical one in power to deliver S.Q.

Passive materials treatment are only HALF of the story....

Active device controls can make your audio system to be freed from the limitations of the room...(i mean non electronical device by the way)

Almost nobody speak about that....Except some sellers of very costly device....It is not necessary to buy one if you know what to do..... Cost: peanuts.....

"Generic" designed speakers dont have soul and body, without a "specific" room designed by you to be his working organ synchronizing with your ears....

:)
In room treatment there is 3 possibilities:

You pay 50,000 dollars for an acoustically engineered room or even morre...

Or you buy costly acoustical materials and you made it yourself... But the cost will be a couple of thousand dollars mostly for quality materials.... But it will be a PASSIVE treatment made for the geometry and content of your room... (I used this passive way also but with cheap materials i dont have much money)

But if your room is not ideal, with odd dimensions and one the speaker is at an odd place in a corner (like mine), you are in a really bad shape.... :) Passive treatment work in some degree, with some limit...

But most people, dont know that it is possible to use ACTIVE controls to change the room acoustic.... Not by electronical equalizer.... But with a grid of ACTIVE generators connected to some grids of active resonators....

Then the sound image become totally holographic and completely decoupled from the speakers....

Yes it is possible, and the good news is that the cost is low....

My best to all...