The problem with absorption panels- it kills the fine details

I think the consensus is that most rooms don’t need much acoustical treatment as long as there is a furnished room.

All the listening rooms we see with all the really really fancy gear only have all the really really fancy gear in them. It’s ridiculous it’s not normal.

I also think the consensus is diffusers make more sense than absorption panels because they scatter the waves and reduce lots of the reverberation affect. But they don’t diminish and absorb all the detail. So if only the world would create better looking diffuser panels then the crap they have now. Some look nice but many of the so-called absorption diffuser combo panels which are ridiculous look horrifying, with a few exceptions here and there.

I would buy diffuser panels in a minute if they looked nicer, but frankly they are a pain in the ass to buy because the marketing and the availability and the design and the size is so difficult to deal with with on all those damn websites that do a terrible job marketing this product. And the ease at which you can mount them on the wall is absolutely horrifying, it could be a lot easier.

I’m interested in online acoustical calculators. There have been a few listed here but the interfaces seem challenging. And they all have to be done on a desktop or laptop. iPads are taboo in this world these days for acoustical testing even if you connected it to a microphone which is absurd.

Is there something that can be purchased that could be plugged into a microphone and you can see the measurements displayed on a graph of your current room status before you start doing all the room correction work.

dirac won’t do that and it’s very difficult to figure out the original acoustic profile of a room. They’re interface is horrifying and there’s so many noise signal errors when you do the testing it is the most unpleasant experience in the entire world. And now I hear higher end speakers create problems for Dirac testing which leads to noise Signal errors. Wtf? Macintosh has a very expensive box that does a lot of stuff but it doesn’t provide a graph of your current situation Nor a graph when it’s all over. Wtf?

There has to be a simple way to evaluate a room without going nuts. Dirac has a very outdated app on the iPad which hasn’t been updated for several years, it’s horrifying and unusable. So good luck doing room correction with a nad processor