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RE: Any Ideas For Helping The Sound Of This Room

Posted by David Aiken (A) on November 16, 2007 at 22:26:14

In Reply to: RE: Any Ideas For Helping The Sound Of This Room posted by stltrains on November 16, 2007 at 18:39:09:

"The pictures look crowded but thats a illusion as the room is 30 feet long"

It's just as likely to be an illusion to me because, in my room, there's only the system and the listening chair in the open. Everything else (bookcases and CD shelves plus DIY acoustic treatment and a couple of other chairs) is located around the edges or in a small area behind me so there's lots of vacant floor space in my room, especially from the listening chair forward. I'm afraid to say that, after living with the system in a combined living/dining area that was quite cramped, I've become rather enamoured of bare floor space in a listening room.

Glad you're getting some improvement. Actually seeing this latest photo reminded me that in my previous house where things were in the living/dining area, we also had the carpets taken up and the wooden floors polished and I remember noticing similar things to what you've said. I too used a rug between the listening position and speakers but I compromised on a rather cheap one. My wife and I saw a lovely hand woven modern Persian rug that we both liked and seriously considered but it cost a fair bit and we had a large dog who tended to shed hair all year round and we wondered what the dog would do to the rug. We bought the cheap rug as a test and decided quickly that that was it. The dog took to the rug like mad, curled up on it for long periods, and shed hair all over it all the time. It didn't take long for a blue rug to look grey and weekly vacuuming only restored the original appearance of the rug for a day or two. We decided that if we bought the rug we liked, we'd never really get much of a chance to see and enjoy it so it wasn't worth spending the money on it. Pity because it was hand woven with a longer, looser pile and all natural wool so it would definitely have been superior acoustically.

And despite what I've seen some people say, a dog between you and the speakers, even a dog with a thick coat, really isn't much benefit acoustically so don't bother trying that as a partial solution. I think cats would be about as useful acoustically as a dog, probably less because there'd be much less of them since the dogs I like tend to be larger.





David Aiken

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