The ideal listening room
Check with Rives Audio and visit the Acoustic Science Corp. website look for their Iso-Wall system,and Auralex.com has many ideas and consultants that will give good advice. Using all three sources (websites and materials mostly) I have built an excellent listing room. Let me know if you'd like to talk. Thanks, Steven |
All the best rooms I've heard were all regular rooms and not some special shape. Instead, what they did is make sure the speakers are set-up correctly and then used some judicious room tuning with bass traps in the corners and absorbers on all the walls. If done right the fabric of the room treatments can kinda fade into the room decore. The best room is your own and it must be functional, comftorable and pleasing to the eye. Otherwise, why would you want to stay in such a room. Besides, if you do not know what your doing I'd recommend getting in touch with a professional or at least consult with one and do your homework. Best of luck and you are pretty lucky to have a dedicated room in the first place. |
Fellow audiophiles, Thanks for all that input as I am going to build a dedicated audio visual room in my new home. I am building around my system. Mostly Mark Levinson, B&W speakers, and a lot of other stuff. SOny CRT, Stewart Screen, Proceed PMDT, Runco Sc4200 line doubler, etc. I am now working on designing the elctrical system for it all. Any other info or tips or mistakes one has made is always helpful. I just printed the response and will use them as I meet with the builder. Thanks |
Victorhsalcedo, MHO is similar to Highend64: use the Golden ratio (1:1.618)to size your room. This should ensure that room modes are not mutiples of each other which will ensure better room acoustics overall. George Cardas has treated this subject on his website where he gives 2 room dimensions one where the ceiling height is constant & another one where is gradually increases as one moves away from the speakers towards the listener. I have also read that some favour a "coffered" ceiling - one where the walls are vertical for a bit then slope inwards before reaching the ceiling. This also helps break-up various room modes. Here is the link to Cardas' website: http://www.cardas.com/cgi-bin/main_content.cgi?area=Insights&content_id=29&pagestring=Room+Setup+4 http://www.cardas.com/cgi-bin/main_content.cgi?area=Insights&content_id=36&pagestring=Room+Setup+10 Again, FWIW, IMHO, YMMV. |
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