Description

This is my dual purpose dedicated audio and music room. With the acoustic treatments in the room, it sounds decent.
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Room Details

Dimensions: 20’ × 13’  Medium
Ceiling: 8’


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    • Esoteric K-03XD
    • Clearaudio Performance
    Turntable
    • Clearaudio Virtuoso
    Moving Magnet
    • Herron Audio VTSP-360
    Very Transparent
    • Herron Audio M2
    • Puritan Audio Labs PSM 156
    Conditioner / Surge Protection
    • Vienna Acoustics Liszt
    Rosewood finish
    • Zavfino Zavfino nova occ speaker cable
    • Parks Audio Puffin phono preamp
    • TimberNation Maple and walnut custom rack
    • Townsend Audio Co. Seismic Platform
    This is a size 3
    • Townshend Audio Platforms on electronics
    • Cable Support NRG edison 20
    outlet and cable support

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Hi Goose,
Have you considered acoustic treatments on wheels that you can move in front of the windows during listening sessions and then pushed off to the side afterwards? The do-it-yourself route is the cheapest and I would suggest you consider curving some thin plywood into polyfusers, which shouldn't be too hard or costly.

If your bass traps are fiberglass filled, then I might suggest you pull them out from the wall to leave an air space, or rotate them 180 degrees to create the air space. You might consider putting two of them together to create a rectangle and thus thicker trap that works to lower frequencies. With so many large windows, the lowest frequencies will exit via the wondows so you're likely concerned with upper and mid bass frequencies. Also, the absorption panels should be about 6" thick, not 2", so that they work across a wider frequency spectrum. Thin absorbers act as a low pass filter and skew the freq response of the reflections striking them thereby changing the timber of your cherished speakers.

Try and deal with front and back wall reflections first as they're less advantageous. You will want something thick to deal with the back wall reflections including placing them in front of the window. Polyfusers would be a neat thing to try behind your seat.

Good luck.

kevinzoe

Hi Goose,
Nice gear! I bet those Avalons sound wonderful.

Regarding your acoustic room treatments, have you read Dr Floyd Toole's book on acoustics and the physics of small rooms? I would suggest it highly. Have you played with covering all that reflective glass with drapes, diffusers or absorbers? Are all the same coloured panels at the front of the room all absorbers and all the same thickness? With wall-to-wall carpeting and yet another carpet on top, I'd be inclined to use diffusion and angled reflectors instead of more mid/high freq absorption. Personally I'm a big fan of mixing it up by using diffusion+reflection+absorption and not just one of the tools (e.g. absorption). Good luck and happy listening.

kevinzoe