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In Reply to: RE: "With a good solid system. The room must be addressed. Again, expensive." posted by rlw on March 17, 2015 at 09:33:43
With regards to room treatment a lot can be achieved by fairly simple decoration choices.
The main one being to eschew leather upholstery in favour of cloth plus carpeting and rugs.
Avoid bare walls, book, record or cd shelves make good diffusors and large windows should get heavy curtains. Keep the furnishing symmetrical relative to the speakers.
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I find heavy curtains can be too restrictive and prefer the current trend to double curtains. It enables me to control acoustics even better. First reflective points have always been emphasized, but the upper corners of the room need to be addressed. Mike Green with his corner tunes led the way but you can simply place drywall inserts in the corners to great effect ( I use a longer isosceles triangle for better aesthetics). for experimentation, a triangle cut out of cardboard is great: just use a bit of painter's tape to hold the cardboard up.The listening room will benefit from using organic material for trim and decorative items. Use wooden statues instead of glass: ornate wooden picture frames instead of the modern metal frames: oil or acrylic paintings with a lot of knife work rather than flat lithographs: wall hangings instead of photos.....
Getting rid of coffee tables will also help: use end tables instead.
All of the above should be of minimal cost, but then art work can be expensive....
Edits: 03/18/15 03/18/15
Diffusion with plants or fake plants works well too. Get the wife involved for a win-win situation.
involvement is good idea: can get very expensive though
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