Calling all room treatment type specialists...


I bought one of those great Maxell Tape commercial posters...remember the guy sitting in his chair with the speakers seemingly blowing in his face.  Well, I don't want to put up a standard glass/plastic frame, because I think it would look a little cheesy in my room, AND b/c I don't want a hard reflective surface in the general area where the picture would. 

I would like to consider whether that poster can be adhered to a material that in turn is the top of a sound absorption panel.  I've been making my own absorbers for years with Roxul, wood framing, and the covering material of my choice (easily passes air through the fabric).  But what if I try to adhere that great poster to the face of the panel?  My limited understanding says it will reflect higher frequencies, and allow lower frequencies to pass through.  Perfect.

Any thoughts on whether the poster will be more reflective than absorptive? And what would you use to adhere the poster.  Spray on adhesive, maybe? 

Thanks.
 
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08-22-2016 11:11am
Though geoffkait's diffuser idea has me thinking. Too bad there's a big TV between my PSB Imagine T2s...

That sounds about right.

;-)

At a show, I heard a couple of nice sounding setups that used the GIK Acoustic panels.  The print transfers to the fabric of the panels looked pretty good.  Their panels are not that expensive.

I believe other companies that make acoustic treatments offer the same kind of service, such as Audimute. 

I looked into the GIK Acoustic panel idea.  I might do it, but the problem at this point is that they need to start with a .tif or other digitized image.  I have the paper poster, but so far I have not found a digitized version of adequate resolution....just small images online.
Talk to your local printing and sign store. They may have a scanner big enough, or e able to point you to a photographer who could do it justice.
But in case this point wasn’t made before, 1 single panel won’t do much in a room, unless it’s right next to your head.

As part of a system of 6-10 panels, each does a part of the work. So as part of the entire room treatment, you may want to just keep the poster, and may be use museum quality plexiglass to cover it. It will be lighter than glass, look 99% as good and be a little less reflective. Compensate for it’s reflections by adding panels and diffusion elsewhere.

Art panels make the most sense when you are getting a series of them made. Like, if you had a set of movie posters printed, then you could set up 4-6 art panels and they'd look great.

Best,


Erik