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Message started by RY on 02/11/26 at 03:23:38

Title: Acoustics and architecture…. How to begin??
Post by RY on 02/11/26 at 03:23:38

Hello,

I have spent the past year and a half going to town. I have mindfully and exuberantly engaged with every aspect of my system, with one exception… acoustics and room treatments.

I have a 14’x18’ x8’ high living room that is also my current listening room. I live in New York City, queens, and am an architectural designer with some fabrication ability. I am just beginning to get privy to how to approach acoustics and room treatments and find it fascinating. I would very much like to do the following:

-maximize the room acoustics in my living room, while maintaining or enhancing its visual appeal

-begin learning about acoustics as a whole, so that I may lean into designing architectural spaces intertwined with hifi listening..,, ie: large volume chamber woofers and open baffles incorporated into the architecture, even speakers partially or entirely cast into the floor walls or ceiling.

how to begin?

thanks for your insight and inspirations, fellow obsessives…!

r

Title: Re: Acoustics and architecture…. How to begin??
Post by MM on 02/11/26 at 13:53:15

I feel room treatment is one of the most important aspects of audio. I’ll take a $10k room with a $1k stereo over a $50k stereo in an untreated room any day. However, aesthetics are important as well. I dont personally care for the “spaceship” look with foam all over the walls- and foam actually doesn’t help that much anyway. Creating a comfortable space that sounds good can go hand in hand.

Luckily, there is an entire section of this site dedicated to room treatment. That’s a good place to start. I suggest reading the content that is already there.

There was also many good suggestions just recently here: https://www.decware.com/cgi-bin/yabb22/YaBB.pl?num=1769928955/9#9

Title: Re: Acoustics and architecture…. How to begin??
Post by Donnie on 02/11/26 at 14:49:26

I would think that the first thing one would need to do is to measure the room to see what is needed.

Just throwing treatments willy nilly without a plan would seem to be counterproductive to me.

You may find out that you only have a few problems to tame!