Room acoustics / Help me treat my Room

[Dumpling]

Hi there!

I want to ask for opinions before just ordering some stuff. I spend time to create an graphic of my room which I attached.

Problems are:

- Extreme Bass Buildup (Red Zones)
I can only listen/make Music with a highpass (120hz).

- Clatter and ugly resonance at 126 hz

- Reverb is extreme.
Talking on the phone is really hard or listening to music

Thanks for any ideas / input. Budget is hard to tell but I am willing to spend maybe 1000 to 2000 max. as its only a hobby for me.

 

[stop.d]

there’s lot’s of info out there wrt treatment and how to diy building panels and such. people argue over things like the 40% front to back rule but it’s pretty universal that your listening position should be center left to right. you’ll never get a normal project room ‘perfect’ (whatever that means…) so you kinda have to find the best sounding spot and go from there.

one way of determining this could be emptying your room and putting your speakers in two corners then move front to back (while centered left to right) and note where it sounds best- repeat with each wall and dial it in. mark your best listening position and arrange your furniture around this and treat your first reflection points and corners. theoretically ‘this’ or ‘that’ might be X amount/density/type of treatment but practically may be totally different, knowing your room and it’s shortcomings is essential.

i upgraded my room last year and built out (9) 48”x24”x2” panels maintaining a 2” gap hung with a french cleat rail system so i could move stuff around easily and (roughly) floor to ceiling traps in the corners that were 18” wide and 4” deep. made a huge difference although i haven’t spent as much time in there as i would like as i travel for work and this year was super busy. this amount of treatment fell within the lower end of your budget and was an absolute blast to do. the only tool i had to buy was a staple gun, i had everything else- perhaps you aren’t handy or don’t have the tools, buying premade may be the move. the big guys like GIK can analyze your dimensions and offer a solution to fit your budget or you could buy some panels, throw sh*t at the wall and see what sticks

don’t forget a good carpet to tame floor reflections… i’ll likely build a cloud soonish and see what that does.

good luck!

 

[Dumpling]

there’s lot’s of info out there wrt treatment and how to diy building panels and such. people argue over things like the 40% front to back rule but it’s pretty universal that your listening position should be center left to right. you’ll never get a normal project room ‘perfect’ (whatever that means…) so you kinda have to find the best sounding spot and go from there.

one way of determining this could be emptying your room and putting your speakers in two corners then move front to back (while centered left to right) and note where it sounds best- repeat with each wall and dial it in. mark your best listening position and arrange your furniture around this and treat your first reflection points and corners. theoretically ‘this’ or ‘that’ might be X amount/density/type of treatment but practically may be totally different, knowing your room and it’s shortcomings is essential.

i upgraded my room last year and built out (9) 48”x24”x2” panels maintaining a 2” gap hung with a french cleat rail system so i could move stuff around easily and (roughly) floor to ceiling traps in the corners that were 18” wide and 4” deep. made a huge difference although i haven’t spent as much time in there as i would like as i travel for work and this year was super busy. this amount of treatment fell within the lower end of your budget and was an absolute blast to do. the only tool i had to buy was a staple gun, i had everything else- perhaps you aren’t handy or don’t have the tools, buying premade may be the move. the big guys like GIK can analyze your dimensions and offer a solution to fit your budget or you could buy some panels, throw sh*t at the wall and see what sticks

don’t forget a good carpet to tame floor reflections… i’ll likely build a cloud soonish and see what that does.

good luck!

Hi there! Thanks for your answer.

I didn't understand "your listening position should be center left to right." You mean, the desk shouldn't be in the center?

 

[bellows and brass]

Should be.

 

[Dumpling]

Should be.

Should be in the center or
Should be not in the center

 

[Marshall K]

Having the speakers in the corners will exaggerate the bass frequencies and add like 3 dB per corner side (for two sides/walls you get 3+3=6 dB bass boost per corner). If the speakers are in a 3-sided corner - near the floor or ceiling - another 3 dB is added, that would be a 9 dB bass boost per corner.
Why not move the speakers a bit towards each other and put them, say, two meters from each other instead of 4 meters, to get them out of the corners? And move them away a bit from the wall behind them; say 0,5 meter.

 

[LesBrown]

Should be in the center or
Should be not in the center

Center, as in 'equal distance between left and right monitors.'

In the diagrams you provided, I would select fix #2, but probably move seating and speakers into a smaller triangle to get the speakers out of the corners, away from walls as noted by Marshall K.