A friend of mine recently went with skylights. Very nice to listen to music in natural light.
How big is the room and how large the opening? Perfect rectangle?
His game plan was very simple and we talked about it prior to his doing it. 1) we avoided placing the skylights on angles of direct reflection. You can use a mirror for this. 2) We put a cloth like material on the trim of the skylight light to avoid as many angular hard surfaces as possible to soften the reflected sound on the theory that small omissions (absorbed sound) will be more difficult to hear that some added reflections. 3) The ace in the hole was we added a retractable "shade" over the skylight. It's a light cloth that resembles the old shades you would pull down over a window. If placement and trim measures failed the idea was to simply cover it for "serious listening." (Was there a post some time ago for most anal audio thing you've done/ maybe this is mine, eh?). A short pole pulls the cover over easily. We begged out on making it electric.
Anyway, we cannot hear the difference (as best we can remember) w/ the skylights installed and he almost never uses the shades.
It might be different with other rooms of course and other speakers with different dispersion patterns.
Couple great online sources www.linkwitzlab.com/rooms
www.silcom.com/~aludwig. This has it all and if he doesn't cover it he refers you to who will. He also sites several great online room calculators to use for acoustic treatments.
I remain,
How big is the room and how large the opening? Perfect rectangle?
His game plan was very simple and we talked about it prior to his doing it. 1) we avoided placing the skylights on angles of direct reflection. You can use a mirror for this. 2) We put a cloth like material on the trim of the skylight light to avoid as many angular hard surfaces as possible to soften the reflected sound on the theory that small omissions (absorbed sound) will be more difficult to hear that some added reflections. 3) The ace in the hole was we added a retractable "shade" over the skylight. It's a light cloth that resembles the old shades you would pull down over a window. If placement and trim measures failed the idea was to simply cover it for "serious listening." (Was there a post some time ago for most anal audio thing you've done/ maybe this is mine, eh?). A short pole pulls the cover over easily. We begged out on making it electric.
Anyway, we cannot hear the difference (as best we can remember) w/ the skylights installed and he almost never uses the shades.
It might be different with other rooms of course and other speakers with different dispersion patterns.
Couple great online sources www.linkwitzlab.com/rooms
www.silcom.com/~aludwig. This has it all and if he doesn't cover it he refers you to who will. He also sites several great online room calculators to use for acoustic treatments.
I remain,