Jeff.....
Room approximately 19’ L x 16’ W x 8’10” H. Back wall has two sets of french doors opening into a larger room. Walls and ceiling two layers of 5/8” sheet rock with green glue. Thanks
Dimensions: 19’ × 16’ Medium
Ceiling: 9’
Thanks. I had some lower frequency cancellation issues and the thicker 6” panels do a better job w/frequencies <100hz. I used the free REW (room eq wizard) software with a $90 microphone from amazon to confirm that the room had dips in the 70hz area. The REW software was also helpful with speaker placement. The fabric is one the Guilford of Maine options called “Silver Papier 538”.
One word: wow! My (future) room will be almost identical in its dimensions. I’m curious as to how/why you selected the 6” GIK Alpha panels vs. (for example) the 4” panels? The fabric color balances nicely with the Blonde Wood veneer. It’s a little hard to tell from the pictures, is that fabric color GIK’s standard grey?
Hi, Thanks for the compliments. Yeah, while the room is far from theoretically perfect…I guess, ideally it would be a little deeper relative to the width with higher ceilings, but from what I had to work with it turned out much better than I thought it would. It’s a really comfortable size and in the end sounds great. I was already pretty happy with it prior to adding the GIK treatments, but room acoustic treatments really are worth it and take it to a different level.
Hi, thanks. I’ve only owned the Sasha 2s for a few months but from the first couple tracks that I listened to at home I was amazed (and relieved since I had only previously listened to them in a different environment with very different SS equipment)…and that was prior to messing around with positioning. I completely agree that positioning matters a lot, although for me that has been the case with other speaker I’ve owned (SF Liuto, Sophia 3, NHT 2.5), especially when the room isn’t great which is often the case. I’ve only had this dedicated room for 6 months or so. Prior to re-finishing our basement my 2-channel set-up was always in a family room type of space.
I’ve owned the amp and dac for 3-4 years and both have been in the “keeper” category for me. I’ve gone through a few equipment/cable changes over years and this is by far the best sounding system I’ve owned. It’s very enjoyable to listen to on all types of music even lessor quality recordings. I’ll try to give more background on what I’ve tried and owned at some point. Thanks
Thanks. The ALPHA panels made a nice improvement but it’s hard to say if it’s simply from having some decent absorption at the first and second reflection points or if the diffusion is also helping a lot. It’s probably both but I suspect the added absorption is what I’m benefiting most from. I’ve put together a few different systems and it still amazes me how much room specific acoustics matter…as well as positioning. The traps on the back wall were a major improvement in flattening out the frequency response in the lower-end while preserving stage depth despite moving the speakers a bit closer to the front wall for optimal bass response. Prior to installing the traps there was more extreme give and take on bass response vs. stage depth when experimenting with speaker positioning.