Best treatment solution for wall of windows and sliding door

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daiku

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My media room has one wall that is 80% windows. I was wondering if I get automated blinds, if they have any effect on reflection, or are they acoustically transparent? In California, we don't have basements, so most rooms have windows. What are the best solutions or providers?
 
daiku said:
My media room has one wall that is 80% windows. I was wondering if I get automated blinds, if they have any effect on reflection, or are they acoustically transparent? In California, we don't have basements, so most rooms have windows. What are the best solutions or providers?
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I'm in the same boat as you. We live at the beach so we have lots of huge windows. And of course the wifey factor comes into play. I think I will have to eventually go with treatments on a stands. Identify their location, mark the location either by measurements or by some mark or photograph and utilize them when its " music time" and remove them and store in another room when any listening session is over. I can forget the really high ceilings for treatment.
 
in my old room, Rives had me use vertical blinds that were littered with holes/weave. Sorta diffusion and it worked well. it also looks much better than heavy drapes imo
 
Recently someone suggested to me that I should get wooden venetian blinds. Wood is a good surface for audio and the blinds would produce some diffusion...
 
CPP said:
I'm in the same boat as you. We live at the beach so we have lots of huge windows. And of course the wifey factor comes into play. I think I will have to eventually go with treatments on a stands. Identify their location, mark the location either by measurements or by some mark or photograph and utilize them when its " music time" and remove them and store in another room when any listening session is over. I can forget the really high ceilings for treatment.
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SMT wings are available on wheels and are transparent, you can move them in place for critical listening and move them back into the corner later.
 
madfloyd said:
Recently someone suggested to me that I should get wooden venetian blinds. Wood is a good surface for audio and the blinds would produce some diffusion...
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I agree that they are a good thing. The wooden blinds can be adjusted & the window/door behind them can also have an effect on the sound. The last room I set up for myself I had drapes with sound absorbing material backing, 360º that pulled into the corners. These were very adjustable & when folded into the corners were hardly noticeable.
 
CPP said:
I'm in the same boat as you. We live at the beach so we have lots of huge windows. And of course the wifey factor comes into play. I think I will have to eventually go with treatments on a stands. Identify their location, mark the location either by measurements or by some mark or photograph and utilize them when its " music time" and remove them and store in another room when any listening session is over. I can forget the really high ceilings for treatment.
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You live on the beach 80% windows sell the audio gear buy a telescope
 
Garth said:
You live on the beach 80% windows sell the audio gear buy a telescope
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:cool:, We are looking into one. We have a whale watching season here in the winter time. The Right whales, which can grow to 70 tons and 55 feet long, are sighted every winter off the Atlantic coast between Jacksonville and Cape Canaveral. They actually get pretty close to the shore. Pretty cool and amazing seeing something that large right off your coast. .
 
CPP said:
:cool:, We are looking into one. We have a whale watching season here in the winter time. The Right whales, which can grow to 70 tons and 55 feet long, are sighted every winter off the Atlantic coast between Jacksonville and Cape Canaveral. They actually get pretty close to the shore. Pretty cool and amazing seeing something that large right off your coast. .
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Whales are nice been on a whale watching boat couple of times killer whales Minkie and greys in the south. But I was thinking on the beach and thinner
 
A wooden blind would act as a diffuser which is great for reflecting surfaces such as glass but maintains the active nature of the space by dispersing the sound waves as opposed to absorption panels/curtains which would deaden the space.


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