| Furniture & Room Sound [message #67020] |
Tue, 12 April 2011 10:24  |
audioaudio90
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Registered: October 2010
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It's amazing how much furniture can change the sound of a room. We had to clear out a room to paint it and now it's reverb and flutter echoes galore.
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| Re: Furniture & Room Sound [message #67033 is a reply to message #67032] |
Wed, 13 April 2011 10:36  |
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Wayne Parham
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Registered: January 2001
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Definitely. Most rooms are pretty lively empty. Large (padded) furniture does a world of good damping midrange frequencies and higher. Shelves can diffuse sound, which can be especially helpful along the opposite wall, where the speakers are facing.
One piece of furniture that isn't helpful is a large coffee table placed in front of the listeners, between them and the speakers. This can cause a very large midrange notch. Best to avoid that, use end tables instead.
Bedrooms are sometimes pretty good acoustically, in spite of the fact they are usually smaller than living rooms, dens or home theater rooms. The bed damps the lower midrange, prevents what would otherwise be a floor bounce notch. It's the opposite of a coffee table, in that the bed absorbs sound rather than reflecting it. It is also usually closer to speaker height, so the path length delta isn't as great. Of course, the speaker must be above the bed surface a little bit, maybe a foot or two.
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. So I took over the room she vacated - the living room. High ceilings, hard floor (ceramic tile) sheetrock walls (two over top of brick) I think you get the picture. Reflections galore. Careful use of thick rugs, furniture, wall hangings and speaker placement finally did the trick. 
It was complicated as I use Martin Logan ESLs. They need to reflect. 
