Cripes ... you guys need to pick ONE forum to argue on.
ONE! Arguing on one, then arguing about what you argued about on another ... that's like worrying about the fact that you worried about something. BTW you need to go visit the Monty Python argument clinic!
Didn't see the replies, must have email notifications off ...
Hello Paul
So how much can you purchase a foam mattress for?
Clarks rubber sell these locally and they are not cheap at all.
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Think of a cartoon picture. Kind of like when Coyote sees road runner and the image of dinner comes up. I'm the guy who sees a couch on the side of the road and thinks "bass trap!" I also get free foam from a friend. It's a bit hard to beat!
Hey Paul, any chance we can see some pics of your DIY room treatments?
It would have to come with a warning ... what you are about to see may offend some viewers! There will be photos, there will also be a wait. I have really ugly prototypes at the moment. The kind that not even a mother could love. I do have a plan in mind and probably next year there will be some photos. My speakers and some of the treatment will be both custom built to fit together. I will have horns built flush into a giant soffit bass trap. Both exist as prototypes right now. So I will have two bass traps, each 1.2m wide and floor to ceiling in the front corners. Yes they are big but they actually stick out into the room less than even an ML1 placed properly (ie not hard up against a wall).
There will be a bulkhead trap over the main seating position (against the rear wall), with downlights in it. In section about 900 x 500. I'll be building a bass trap couch at some point in the corner - yes a couch modified to act better as a bass trap. That will be an interesting challenge. I was hacking apart an old couch that was comfy but dodgy. Part about to go to the tip, then I realised it had useful bits in it. So we have one bulkhead trap, one couch corner trap and two corner bass traps. This is in a dedicated room, red walls, black ceiling, combined home theatre and music room. There will also be some diffusers, and many of those bass traps will have a membrane over them to avoid making the room dead. When you put enough bass trappage in a small room to make the bass behave, you have a dead sounding room. So many of the panels will have a painted MDF layer over them with holes cut - those holes make them act also as a diffuser - look up RPG BAD panel and you'll get an idea. I won't be absorbing first reflection points in this room generally as I've designed the speakers to avoid the need.
Probably a bit hard to imagine all that.
Maybe one day i will measure my room and post graphs/data for all to see,i think treblid or tuyen have the equipment to do such measurements
you never know dritz i might just need some room treatment.
I'm pinching myself right now. Could this be happening? Waiting for Drizt to say power cables do make a difference ............. and for Stevenvalve to say "I feel like doing some blind testing today, who's up for it?!" ... Sorry, couldn't resist.
Just one suggestion for anyone getting pro help. Make sure you know what you want. Those prepared get the most benefit. If you aren't able to articulate what you want to achieve, then it's very difficult for a pro to actually help. They will probably tend to default to their own preferences. So it pays to understand some of the terms. Terms like room modes, shroeder frequency, room gain, precedence effect, pressure vs velocity traps etc. Having a bit of understanding of some basics of room acoustics and different strategies will help you get the best help. If you get a consultant who doesn't ask you questions about what you prefer and already has a list of solutions, then you are getting nothing more than what you could read on the interweb! A smart consultant should be asking you about what you are looking to achieve, then using their tools to get there, not trying to impose a single solution onto every room in the world.