Viewing/Listening Room Acoustics
robsreef
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Where can I find information regarding home theater room acoustics, and how to improve them? I've always had flat 8'-10' ceilings, rectangular theater rooms, wall-to-wall carpet, and a concrete slab foundation. Now I have vaulted (9' at right wall, 14' at left wall) ceilings, an odd, open room, hardwood floors, and a pier and beam foundation.
I have purchased more (7.1 vs 5.1) and better (Polk Monitor 50's x4 vs HK HTIB surrounds x2) speakers. I have also went from an old PSW120 8" Ported SW (90w) to a Sealed 15" SW (240w).
Do area rugs help, pictures on the wall, etc, to help disrupt the wholesale reflection of sound?
I have purchased more (7.1 vs 5.1) and better (Polk Monitor 50's x4 vs HK HTIB surrounds x2) speakers. I have also went from an old PSW120 8" Ported SW (90w) to a Sealed 15" SW (240w).
Do area rugs help, pictures on the wall, etc, to help disrupt the wholesale reflection of sound?
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Where can I find information regarding home theater room acoustics, and how to improve them? I've always had flat 8'-10' ceilings, rectangular theater rooms, wall-to-wall carpet, and a concrete slab foundation. Now I have vaulted (9' at right wall, 14' at left wall) ceilings, an odd, open room, hardwood floors, and a pier and beam foundation.
I have purchased more (7.1 vs 5.1) and better (Polk Monitor 50's x4 vs HK HTIB surrounds x2) speakers. I have also went from an old PSW120 8" Ported SW (90w) to a Sealed 15" SW (240w).
Do area rugs help, pictures on the wall, etc, to help disrupt the wholesale reflection of sound?
Area rugs do help with hardwood floors if you put them at the first and second reflection points or if they cover both. There are many other tweaks but I will let others with more experience comment.
Also there is a bunch of info on this on AVSFORUM as well as some pretty knowledgeable members (not that there aren't a bunch here). Maybe head over there and post the same thing...."....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963) -
avsforum.com has a wealth of info. I'll check them out I guess.
