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It looks like that's calculating room modes. A room mode is like a natural frequency of a room. Sound at that frequency will either be stronger or weaker than sound in other frequencies.

This isn't exactly the point of view you're asking for because I am an acoustical engineer, not someone who has hired one. However I am in the process of finishing my basement which will include a purpose-built listening room. I've also been through the design process on other critical...

I built mine almost 8 years ago and it's still going strong. With the right preamp and speakers it sounds fantastic.

Hi everyone! Long time, no chat. Link should be working. It's not a link to the file directly, but to a page at my website where it can be downloaded.

I've updated the link to a current download location for the file.

What kind of floor is in the room now? You said it's a loft, are the walls straight all the way up with a flat ceiling? Or are they angled? I don't see any reason you can't get this room sounding fantastic.

If it did, I'd expect that you'd find speakers in the store with insulation on the back.

Those of you who think the untreated room sounds better, remember that in these examples the source and the mic are near each other. The effect of the room is diminished in this situation because the direct sound field is so strong. In a listening room situation your ears and your speakers are...

I don't know what this means.

There certainly is. There are both microphones and accelerometers that are more than sensitive enough to test their claims.

Think about how people sound when you hear them talking through a wall. Muffled. Low notes get through but high notes do not, so you lose all the consonants and are left with just vowels. Same sort of effect for cardboard, only the cutoff frequency will be even higher. Bass notes spend more...

I think cardboard would reflect high frequency but not low frequency. I bet it's just about invisible to bass notes.

Looks great! The curved wall behind is probably pretty bad for sound, though. That's a whole lotta first reflection points. It may sound louder behind you than in front of you, and it may criss-cross left and right. Hopefully those effects are minimal.

I love a very dead room. Give me an anechoic chamber.

Can you treat the ceiling? When you have two parallel, reflective surfaces you get can get strong peaks or nulls (null in your case). You untreated the floor, but maybe you can fix it by treating the ceiling.

The further the distance the absorber is from the wall, the lower the frequencies it will be able to act upon. If you mean to say that the 4" absorber will have 12" of air space behind it, I think that would be the better option.

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You're correct, they are different. These panels are good for neither.

Hey! I know those guys. This album was recorded with my microphones. My name's in the liner notes. "Veneklasen" is where I was working at the time, and most of this album was recorded in our offices. I'm listening to the new Mogwai. I haven't taken to it as quickly as Hardcore and...

He was responding to the idea of using the panels as a covering for an absorber. Since it's a board, it would make a very poor covering for an absorber since it wouldn't let much sound into the absorber to be absorbed.

It's actually more expensive that means higher quality, but since you pay by the pound it's effectively the same thing.

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Standing the absorption off of the wall a bit increases the wavelength that the absorber can effectively act against, meaning it works better at low frequencies. Why? At any given point in a sound wave there's a mixture of energy in the form of pressure and velocity. At the peaks and the...