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Room Too Dead

Hello All,

I am looking for advice and ideas on how to condition my Home Theater room.  I built the theater in my unfinished basement.  The foundation walls are covered in insulation and vapor barrier.  Instead of construction walls to cover them, I chose a "pipe and drape" to cover the walls.  I believe that the room is too dead.  It seems to affect overall soundstage in the midrange range.  Does anybody have experience with this problem and ideas to add a little "excitement" to the room?  Thank you all.

rael1313

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elliottbnewcombjr
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If you had vintage speakers, they would have brilliance (tweeters) and presence (mid driver) level controls, adjustments would perk the frequencies to your liking. They were made because they might end up in a live room, or a dead room, and your particular preferences.

Alas, most modern speakers do not provide level controls

I would start, perhaps finish with a multi-band equalizer

here's an inexpensive rockville 21 band from Amazon (try it, anything can be returned) (they make a 32 band, but enough is enough)

https://www.amazon.com/Rockville-REQ42-B-Equalizer-Spectrum-Analyzer/dp/B00LZDSL7U/ref=asc_df_B00LZDSL7U/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312069187648&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13668772867094839483&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003512&hvtargid=pla-570384384433&th=1

You will learn about your room, specifically what's missing, what boost/cut makes the biggest difference at your listening positions.

For home theater, if the equalizer makes the system sound darn good, I would be done. 

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