best place for designing room w/ ur equip

Are you looking more for someone to design you a system or the room? I had spoken to many when I was trying to design my room from the scratch. It was disappointing that when I talked about design, pretty much all of them were thinking of just sticking aftermarket room treatment pieces on the walls.

I told them that I want to either avoid using any of them, or incorporate them as part of the aesthetic design of the room, but I did not want those elements to stick out like a sore thumb. Pretty much all of them gave me a blank stare and didn't know what I was talking about. The only one that even understood what I was talking about was a professional acoustician who designs music halls and recording studios. He was gracious to take time out of his busy schedule to talk to me as a favor for a mutual friend. His fee starts at $50k.....

But if you are looking for someone to "fix" problems in an existing room, and aesthetics is of no concern, most of these guys will do.

There is a difference between a good listening room vs. a good HT room. Most of the guy designing you an HT room will want to absorb excess energy from your speakers/subs. But I think for Audio, you want to keep the room a bit more livelier.

Good luck,
FrankC

Designers are far more interested in aesthetics than sound quality. The wife nearly had me talked into letting these characters design are sound room when we bought a new house. Wow was I glad when they left, it was good for a laugh anyway, wife was in a snit for a while.

Tmsorosk, don't mistaken a decorator for a designer. In my former life as an architect, I had worked with some good acoustic engineers on auditorium projects where we collaborate to achieve good aesthetics without compromising on acoustics.

FrankC