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?
@OP you can generate convolution filters for your daughter’s room yourself with REW (open source software, free) and the aforementioned $100 mic. Then, instead of expensive roon or JRiver you can run Daphile (Linux-based, open source, free) on the same suitably minimally configured PC you would need to run roon on anyway, load your convolution filters in Daphile, and voilà.
It’s $830 right now. |
Good advice from @yyzsantabarbara as usual. $830 for Roon is one of the best things a hard core audiophile who is also a music lover can buy. I did. The DSP using convolution filters and all the rest can be best thought of as a priceless bonus feature!!! I use multiple third party convolution filters for specific headphone models and several I created myself with REW for various rooms in my house where I listen. |
I have (had) a similar problem with a wall of glass paneled doors with windows opposite my speakers , in back of my listening position. I had custom Draperies made with a think cotton front with heavy liner or backing behind and attached to the front fabric. The drapes are weighty and folded and provide fantastic absorption because there are many folds as well as thick fabric. So basically the sound gets sucked in and can’t bounce out. The room might even border on too damped. So any further room treatments are on the side walls I have used diffusion. I have a thick fabric couch with a padded area rug. The diffusion on the side walls at the 1st reflections and behind the speakers on the front wall , allow my system to shine. The room seems much larger with the diffusion. Do not over damp with absorption!! |
