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Room treatments for an odd listening room ?
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I can't seem to get that link to work here on this forum. It worked when I sent to another person's email and tried it elsewhere even on another forum, so in general its working outside of stereofile. Sorry, maybe someone can help with this too.
thanks again.

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I really have no understanding of room treatments or what they look like.


Start here:

www.realtraps.com

Then follow up with any questions.

--Ethan

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Actually I had looked at realtraps just prior to your post. I feel that I am lucky with a very good sounding room. The only reason I can say that is I have listened to much more expensive systems in a few audio shops (that had separate rooms set up). Three all told. And while not a scientific study, I did bring some CDs as well as an exceptional DTS recording that I sort of use as refererence for surround configs. Trying to hold back bias, which is near impossible for humans, I really truly, found my room to win out. If nothing else, I was not blown away by those other sites which was double or more the gear in $$.

I wonder if its because I am mostly below ground and have lots of padding/rugs.

Still looking to make things even better, but the traps look wretched and I'll never know unless I go the whole route and buy and install them.

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I have listened to much more expensive systems in a few audio shops (that had separate rooms set up).


I have not been in every high-end shop in the world. But every high-end shop I've ever heard sounded terrible because there was no acoustic treatment. Who cares how great the rest of the stuff is when the sound is destroyed by bad acoustics?


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I wonder if its because I am mostly below ground and have lots of padding/rugs.


Rugs and "padding" will help at higher frequencies, but do nothing for bass problems which are usually worse (measured) if slightly more subtle audibly. What does help is having a large room. An untreated large room always sounds better than an untreated small room.


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the traps look wretched


Ethan's rule of acoustic treatment:

You can have effective, affordable, or attractive - pick any two. If you want effective and attractive you need to spend another coupla grand for something like those stretch-wall systems that cover all the panels so all you see is the nice fabric.

--Ethan

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