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Room Treatment

We have all talked about the best amp, best pre-amp and the best audio components to buy at a certain price. I would like to find out what material is the best room treatment available. Is is a hard material like a styrofoam product or an absobtive product like rubber or sponge? What has worked for you and why? Do you use fabric to hide these treatments or have you found something better? Room treatment has very little discussion. I would like to find a DIY project that can improve the overall dynamics of a very difficult room. Let me hear your comments.....
hiflyer
hchigrin24d9
2 posts
 
How much are they? I want to buy these too -- I live in Chicago thanks, Herman
ivory1
16 posts
 
After pricing commercial products such as Sonex, I decided to make my own acoustic panels. I have four panels on the wall behind the sweet spot, and they work very well. I used convoluted grey packing foam glued to hardboard panels covered in acoustically transparent white fabric. I got the foam from work, and the perforated fabric from a local store. I can neither measure nor compare my panels' performance with products like Sonex, but for me they work fine. My only regret is that I didn't make more!
dako
21 posts
 
Herman,you can buy them at any Home Depot,Lowe's etc.Just remember to put bare fiberglass side out towards the room and cover them with some fabric so you don't have fiberglass particles floating in the air.Good Luck!!!
hchigrin24d9
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Happy New Year
tom_munro
162 posts
 
I bought 24" wide insulation at Home Depot, the type covered in a translucent pick plastic with a white fiberglass fill, some 1/4" luan, and some reasonably transparent fabric that matched my room. I cut the 4'x8' luan into 2'x4' sheets, stapled the insulation to the luan at the edges, and covered with fabric. These panels are both reflective and absorbtive. I've placed them at key reflection points and behind my listening position. The result has been quite dramatic, although I am still curious what a well done commercial solution would sound like.
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