Tweaks when building a listening room?


I'm putting an addition to my house that will have a dedicated 2 channel room. It's fairly large @ 20'x 15' with 15' cathedral ceilings. I have 2 dedicated 20 amp plugs with PS Audio outlets. My question is there any tweaks as far as putting up the drywall or any other building ideas?
Thanks for your help,
Marc
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Showing 1 response by unclejeff

The flexible conduit mentioned above is a must. You always want the chance to pull wires. also, run an empty conduit with a string inside. you will be amazed how soon you will be using it.

On the walls, I would use two layers of sheetrock, but of different widths. I would probably put 3/8 against the studs and then use that newer fiberglass-based mold resistant sheetrock as the outer layer. This stuff also does not vibrate like regular sheetrock. I stumbled on this fact when I mounted some in-wall speakers in both kinds of sheetrock and the fiberglass stuff did not vibrate as much when I touched it while playing music. One other thing you might do is tack a layer of accoustic rubber between each layer of sheetrock. This stuff stops soundwaves really well.