MusicDirector
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I have a severe echo and smearing problem in my room where my daily driver system is.
I ran a test to determine where my reflection points are.
Room: Hard floors, flat ceiling, 27' long by 12' wide. One sofa across from wall with system. Two CD cabinets with glass doors, one on either side of sofa. One end of room sliding glass door with vertical blinds, on other end opens up to dining/kitchen. Basically the room from hell.
I put a comforter over each CD cabinet and a bunch of pillows on top of the back of the sofa and tested with music, movies and the good old snap and clap test. Result: good cut in mid frequency echo, but still had lots of high frequency echo also no smearing in movies, was able to hear dialog finally. Identified reflection points: wall behind sofa, glass doors on cabinets, floor and ceiling.
Got a rug today, it's only 5'x7' and while it should be a good foot or two bigger, it was all I could afford. Laid it down and did notice some cut in the high frequency echo, maybe half. Not much more I can do about that though since I can't attach anything to the ceiling or walls.
I'm going to test again with the rug in place just to see, but I know that panels are needed as well as getting rid of the glass doors. Hopefully I should be able to get away with maybe a couple of panels and stands.
~Eric
I ran a test to determine where my reflection points are.
Room: Hard floors, flat ceiling, 27' long by 12' wide. One sofa across from wall with system. Two CD cabinets with glass doors, one on either side of sofa. One end of room sliding glass door with vertical blinds, on other end opens up to dining/kitchen. Basically the room from hell.
I put a comforter over each CD cabinet and a bunch of pillows on top of the back of the sofa and tested with music, movies and the good old snap and clap test. Result: good cut in mid frequency echo, but still had lots of high frequency echo also no smearing in movies, was able to hear dialog finally. Identified reflection points: wall behind sofa, glass doors on cabinets, floor and ceiling.
Got a rug today, it's only 5'x7' and while it should be a good foot or two bigger, it was all I could afford. Laid it down and did notice some cut in the high frequency echo, maybe half. Not much more I can do about that though since I can't attach anything to the ceiling or walls.
I'm going to test again with the rug in place just to see, but I know that panels are needed as well as getting rid of the glass doors. Hopefully I should be able to get away with maybe a couple of panels and stands.
~Eric