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Room a bit small for my Sonus faber Cremona speakers. Had to use Echo Busters' "Bass Buster," "Corner Buster," & "Absorption Panel." It works and it looks fairly decent.

It's not a listening room, it's a living room, and my wife has something to say about what I can do to it.

We rebuilt the house. Yup! And told the architects that the speakers would just have to stay _there_. They shook their heads, but then my wife agreed to do without a coffee table in the living room.... I love that woman!

I planned the room before building it: Where to sit while hearing music, where the boxes would stand, and where the equipment would stand. The result? No (big) room resonances and the wall outlets are at the right places, exclusively for the stereo.

Tube traps, bass traps, corner traps(at corners of ceiling), bamboo blinds at the rear wall, and carpets. The results were definitely obvious: Lower but tighter bass, sweeter and more palpable mid-range, and extended highs. Over time I realised that the improvements were much more obvious with budget systems/equipments. Nevertheless no harm trying out the tweaks one by one to see where's your biggest bang for the buck.

On the floor: rug with piece of thick carpet underneath. Between the speakers: plants. That's it.

I'm looking into a house and now have WAF to dedicate a room to my two-channel system. She understands my passion for my hobby and after painstaking hours of explanation on the virtues of having the correct environment for a system to properly function at its fullest potential, she has agreed that a dedicated room is the way to go. Besides it's always a good way to get the hubby out of your hair for awhile.I'm currently running a near-field set up that resembles me sitting in a closet or at least that's the way I feel when in my listening position. I'm currently listening to my system in an 7' X 11' sun room in an upstairs duplex that was built in 1922. I have windows at my back and down one side. I sit at the back of the long wall with the windows to my back. The only sound treatments to my space are a wool rug out in front of my system and all my windows have shears over them. My system sits 12" off the back wall and my 804s are 28" off the back wall and 11" off the side walls and toed in just a hair. If you do the math I'm sitting between six & seven feet away from my five foot wide speaker seperation. I'm no engineer but I'm pretty sure this is a near-field setup! Mark G. and I have discussed side wall reflection but I have sheers on one side and my reflection point on the other side goes out the room entrance so I do not believe I'm having a reflection problem with this setup. I'm just looking to get a room that will let my system open up. Now if you're a big fan of in-your-face, I have got that covered. I'm looking forward to getting a dedicated room to go all out with. You know how they say patience is a virtue? Sometimes I feel like the two vultures in the comic strip who say, "Patience, my ass, I'm going to kill something," because I do get a little fatigued at this range sometimes.

I had terrible slap-echo in the audio room of my new house. I first tried 4'x4' sheets of SONEX on the walls, but that just made it worse. I then removed the SONEX and applied RoomTunes and CornerTunes (are they still in business?) which eliminated the slap-echo completely, and are not visually obtrusive. Last year, instead of upgrading my old (serial numbers 13 & 14)B&W 801 Series 2 speakers, I bought a Tact RCS 2.0 digital room correction system. Although the Tact can't fix everything (a null in the room is still a null) and thus speaker placement is still important, it does a very good job on room correction, plus it corrects for balance, phase, and time errors.

Any major room treatment with the products I have seen would be a decorating distaster with a zero spousal acceptance quotient. I've simply placed some furniture and plants strategically, placed a carpet on the hardwood floor, and lived with the remaining problems.

Well, the answer is actually yes but, no. Ive used just normal furniture to act as barriers and sound absorbers. Such as quilts on quilt reacks, drapes and other things. This has helped to control the overall sound of my room. Soon, however, I am going to purchase an entire room-tuning system to push the envelope even more.

I started by installing CornerTunes in all seven (!) of the ceiling corners of my odd-shaped room. I still had a terrible problem with slap echo, so I got four ASC wall panels, putting three of them in a sort of proscenium arch behind the listening position, with the fourth mounted horizontally behind my bipole/dipole speakers. Now, when I clap my hands, I get a single return instead of a metallic reverberation. Perfect? No, but it's the best I can do in an apartment.

I took the low cost and, probably, small result road in treating my room. I placed Southwest-type blankets over the panelled walls. In a couple of places, I put some sound deadening ceiling tiles under the blankets. The room looks tacky and the results are probably dubious, but I don't have to worry about WAF because it's the only room that is mine in the house. I let my wife have the rest of the house to decorate.

Front Wall: Sonex foam. ASC 20" Super Traps (stacked) in the corners behind the speakers. Ceiling: RPG Skylines Side Wall: No treatment necessary due to speaker position and absence of reflections. I use a long wall placement. Rear Wall: RPG Skylines Floor: Carpeted. The sound is awesome! I use the set up recommended by Audio Physic (ie, long wall placement, with the listener against the back wall).

I use the Tact 2.0 room correction system to correct the sonic problems in my listening room. It corrects both frequency and time errors.

Still having problems with the design of the room/house. Have tried anechoic pads, but no real difference detected. I am considering tapestries on the wall. It is difficult to juggle acoustic treatment and trying to maintain a "regular human lives here" appearance. Maybe Stereophile should do more articles on room acoustics for the modern audiophile. If anything, have Lisa Astor write a series of articles that assist the acoustics while maintaining a somewhat fashionable appearance.

Put some foam (for padding on bed mattresses)on the side walls to give a little texture and absorption to the wall surface. Its a cheap tweak that helps.

Bashed the plaster off the back wall. This added the attic to the room's volume and created a 'dead end'. Windows behind the audio system are the 'live end'.

I moved to this new apartment with a livingroom with 5 walls. Better sound overall but I need more stuff on the walls and stuff. 1

Placed RPG foam on the side and rear walls. Huge increases in clarity and spaciousness.

Overpopulating my listening room with records (the black shiny circular plastic stuff sounds good whether it's revolving or not). This is simply (in my opinion) the best room tweak there is—next to leather-bound books that is. LPs still sound better than CDs, even when they are doing nothing but accumulating dust in my shelves.

Constructed a DIY version of tube-type bass traps (18" diameter by 36" high). I'm finishing the second one now. I'm working to tame some nasty room modes.

My room is a "modifed" Live end, Dead end (LEDE) set-up. My rear wall is very diffractive and my front wall mostly absorptive. However, probably the most important thing is that I've damped the side walls at the "first reflection point." Note, I did all all of this without resorting to ANY commercial treatments. My rear wall is diffractive by virture of wall to wall bookcases with books purposely arranged in size and depth to be as chaotic as possible. My front wall was damped with floor-to-ceiling heavy drapery extending well beyond the window's actual dimenisions. I say "modifed" as I left a reflective section behind each speaker as they are dipoles. The side walls were damped with heavy fabric decorative pieces—on one side, a tapestry and on the other, a woven thing I think is called macrame. The result is that it still looks like a living room, but sounds more like a recording mastering studio. Killing off parallel reflective surfaces is the real key.

Cleaned it the other day.

1) Cornertunes in each upper corner of the room. 2) plus six 2' x 3' sheets of egg-crate foam, 2" thick, each inserted flat into a pillowcase, with the pillowcases tacked to the side walls. 3) two springbok hides tacked to the rear wall. 4) Lots of LPs and books on the walls.

Corner Tunes in all ceiling locations, Room Tunes hanging on the wall ( wood stands removed )positioned behind Maggie's tweeters, a tapestry ( Sgt Pepper album cover )hanging behind my head at the listening position, full soft texture shade covering the window. That's it!

Thick hall to wall carpeting did wonders.

Absolutely, Room treatment is just as important as the equipment. I use acoustic foam, carpets on the floor and the walls. Room treatment is as important as any other link in the signal chain.

I bought an antique tapestry to place behind my head. Really tames the echo

My last house had a room that turned out to be marvelous for listening—a basement room made of concrete on three sides and a stout load-bearing wall on a fourth, shoeboxed-shaped, with carpet and ducts on the ceiling that had been encased in drywall—which could probably not have been better for breaking up ceiling reflections had it been designed for that purpose. I was surprised what a difference the room made in the sound. My current room is as poor as my former room was good; but hey, I need my jazz where I work, so there's nothing for it. Although rooms are important, the nice thing is that you can get used to "listening through" most any problem.

I'd love to say I "plan" to find a better room, but a more apt description might be that I hope to find myself in one some day. In the meantime, I just set up and listen.