Tell us about your acoustic treatments


After three years my HT is about 95% complete, i have huge corner super chunk bass traps, i use wooden diffusers for flutter echo and 4” OC703 absorbers at the first reflection point.
my screen is an AT type, i have zippered pillowcases with pink owens corning pink fluffy to place under and all around the LCR. I also made (all diy) some skyline type diffusers for first reflections and flutter echo.
kgveteran

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Finally understanding that acoustic treatments are tools, and like tools they need a problem first. I always looked at it as though I needed treatments but never really understood the progression and actually assessing what the problems in the room are. I looked at acoustic treatments like equipment just stuff I had to have.

it was as simple as corner traps, velocity absorbers and diffusion, they solve everything that’s wrong in my room

PS: i made my own 100% blackout shades, and tracks ! It was huge to have the room void of all light during the day
To me, bass trapping is about decay time. 
The idea of producing sound, and then controling it was very foreign to me in the beginning, once you understand reflection points, flutter echo, standing waves, those are common issues in dedicated HT’s.

i never measured before implementing the corner traps :0/  so definitely i cannot show you proof on paper, maybe when im retired and project hunting, i’ll pull em out and plot some graphs....

theres no doubt about the bass decay, i find it very acceptable 
I only used superchunk corner traps, diffusers and absorber, i had no large peaks that needed addressing.

the room measured so well i dont use the parametrics EQ in my MiniDSP for my subs, and adding in room gain gets me flat to 10hz

Let’s not forget Acoustic Discs from Golden Sound for room corners, tiny little bowl acoustic resonators from Franck Tchang and others, speaker isolation devices, Room Tunes Corner Tunes and Echo Tunes, Schumann Frequency Generators, including the teeny little USB device from Hong Kong, Mpingo disc, crystals, Marigo VTS Dots for wall, windows, speakers, etc., Helmholtz resonators, Quantum Temple Bell from yours truly, and of course the XLO Test CD for absolute speaker positioning. 
         I guess you don’t agree with acoustic treatments, could you explain why, unless i misread your post.....