Room with glass windows as a walls.
My daughter moved from first floor townhouse apartment to 42nd floor skyscraper apartment and fifty percent of her apartment walls are actually glass windows from floor to ceiling now.
I helped her with setting up her system at old place and the sound was pretty decent however new apartment acoustic wise is total disaster.
Of course I did put her system together at new place but sound is terrible. She actually understands all my explanations about acoustic issues at new place, but she doesn’t take it seriously. My daughter actually listens to a lot of music, sometimes for hours however I wouldn’t call her audiophile, probably just a serious music lover and I understand that she will have listening fatigue pretty soon at her new place.
Acoustic treatment probably would be limited or refused due to esthetic and design incompatibility. Has anyone experienced setting up a system in such conditions, any advice?
Glass walls are rough. If there's ANY possible way for her to hang acoustic clouds on the ceiling, that would be my suggestion. You can make them yourself for super cheap or order them from a company like GiK Acoustics. Minimal issue, just need to cover the holes and paint that part of the ceiling when she moves if she's renting. Also not sure if every single wall in the room is glass, but if you can get paneling up on any of the NON glass windows, that would be ideal. And one more suggestion would be, if she can stomach it, use adhesive or command strips and hang at least a decent size section at first reflection 4-6" thick of the thicker stuff on the window where her first reflection point is. Or again, buy some panels from GiK for first reflections. With clouds, and first reflections covered, and if her rear wall is not glass, putting some diffusion on there, would help massively! Best of luck to you and to her! |
@rodman99999 ‘infinitely tuneable’ - +1 : ) |
I respect that the OP has good intentions as are all the responders, but the situation getting absurd in that a bunch of old men, at least demographically speaking, are advising a young woman on how to decorate her apartment. Are we next going to give her makeup and clothing advice? Sometimes it best to let your children figure it out themselves. I apologize in advance for sounding like an old, cranky guy. |
There is an another option. Get Wavetouch audio speakers. Unlike other speakers (more 1st reflection points on walls, floor, and ceiling), walls and a floor influence much less to WT speakers’ sounds. One must find used WT speakers. I have no time for WT speakers for a long time. Alex/WTA |
