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RE: Room Echo/Treatment

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In Reply to: RE: Room Echo/Treatment posted by jgless2@yahoo.com on October 14, 2009 at 11:31:48

>My problems are firstly echo-related I think. You can hear it when you clap. Conversation is difficult to understand from a distance. As are voices from the TV.<

That's typical for rooms with too high a reverberation time. Reverberation is the result of the sound bouncing off the room boundaries multiple times. Since it's a rather chaotic, random process, absorption anywhere in the path of the sound waves will have an effect, so yes, absorbers on ceiling will do. But so will do upholstered furniture, drapes, carpets/rugs. You could also "camouflage" wall absorbers as paintings.

Our room (extension to our house in 2002) is built from bricks, floor is tiled, two large floor-to-ceiling glass panes (sliding door to garden), 2 large and 1 smaller window. We had installed an acoustical ceiling (stretched synthetic fabric with 26 air gap above) and the result is great.

Klaus
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RE: Room Echo/Treatment - jgless2 07:55:06 10/15/09 (1)
- Ceiling clouds - KlausR. 21:55:13 10/15/09 (0)

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