If you have a nice system why do you really need room treatments?
Yeah you may need an absorption panel if your room is completely open, ie. No rug or furniture, ie just lonely single chair. But if your system can't cut it in any room then it's a system problem and you should be able to discern a good system regardless of the room. Unless you put it on the roof of your apartment building but the Beatles seemed to have survived that effort
I think people go nuts with all this absorption acoustical room treatment stuff and it looks kind of awful. Once in a while you see a really cool looking diffuser panel and I would definitely want one. But to have a system that works really well without any of the acoustical panel distractions is a wonderful thing.
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@emergingsoul You are the one with threads and posts whining about anything and everything with no loss for the melodramatic. |
Run REW (Room EQ Wizard) or the equivalent and find out what your room really does. You may be lucky and have a listening position that is accidentally perfect. My daughters bedroom is like that. All it needed was some bass absorption on the floor (provided by two 2.5’X2.5’ 8" inch panels just placed on the ground about 3 inches from the wall behind her subs and speakers (some BW 701s and equivalent BW subs). She literally has a perfectly testing system for dispersion/standing waves/pressure -- the whole thing -- at her listening area with zero effort. It happens. My actual listening room (a literal bomb shelter; not joking) was not so easy and had awful echos, dead areas, and all sorts of weird stuff that required a lot of both testing and treatment. |
I remember a member who went by @jumia who was going off about leaf blowers for a while. Actually, his posts resembled the posts @emergingsoul makes. @emergingsoul , were you @jumia in another life? |
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