Post by simpleman68 on Feb 18, 2016 17:57:15 GMT -5
I greatly prefer the sound of the untreated room in my case. I shouldn't say "untreated" entirely. The entire floor has extra thick padding and carpet and the entire ceiling was done with homasote and heavy fabric.
The room is almost too dead.
Bass traps is a whole other animal and I've been studying it for some time. Seems like most of the corner traps yield minimal results below 150 Hz and the more effective traps require a substantial amount of dead space between
two layers which eats up a ton of room space. All the resources I've read over the years suggest it requires a ton of mass to effectively reduce standing waves etc in the lower spectrum.
What I've done instead is to focus on speaker placement, optimal room setup and it's gotten me pretty close. Initial Dirac readings showed my room much flatter than I initially expected.
It's a work in progress but if you're ever in the area, feel free to stop in and give a listen.
Scott
www.gikacoustics.com/understanding-decay-times/
Pressure based bass traps do not take up a lot of floor space:
www.gikacoustics.com/understanding-different-bass-trapping/
That said, I have seen two boatloads of pictures taken by people who have more than enough room space for very thick (Supertips Superchunk) velocity based corner bass traps floor to ceiling in the corners behind the front Left + Right speakers, but the vast majority of them still don't have any bass traps. What they do have is a really very cool looking soffit all the way around their ceiling, complete with fancy lighting built into it and everything, but I hardly ever see a soffit that factually is a soffit bass trap. I still can't for the life of me understand why that is.
P.S. - Here's a discussion thread you might find interesting:
www.gearslutz.com/board/product-alerts-older-than-2-months/707711-gik-scopus-tuned-trap.html
In my opinion, a theater is a work in progress, particularly a higher effort build. Unless you pay somebody a lot of money or spend years researching before you build, you get what you built and you seek to improve upon it
as you learn more.
I started with panels covering first order reflections and over time realized they were too much, so I took them down to resize. (not shown in photos)
Cell shot with wall treatments up.
Looking forward to playing with bass traps as time and research permits.
Same goes for the car I drag race, the deck I'm building or the next investment property I spec. Nobody gets perfection on their first run and there is a lot of enjoyment in the learning process.
Scott
