My New Setup

You said it bombaywalla...nice setup surrealistix...should reming myself to drop in on mumbai when i get there

Enjoy!!

I plan to carpet the entire front area of the room. For now, I hav some hand me down 8th nerve absorption panels which I will place on the floor directly below the speakers and triangular traps at the ceiling wall edges.

http://www.eighthnerve.com.au/products.html

Thanks for the inputs - Bombaywalla
Savyasaachi - do remember to drop in

Hi Surrealistix,

Nice effort in creating your room.

I too have made myself a listening den { Lucky me ... entire room to myself }

My room started out as Hard and very reverberant. I used Dupont's 2 inch medium density Fiberglass ( easily available and not too expensive at all.. about Rs 2K per large roll enough for your entire room )) to create my own sound absorbers, built as panels, flush in the wall.

The Key requirement was that the 2 inch fibre wool have a 2 inch air gap behind it, before the wall.

That was nicely met, because, my wall was recessed by about 4 inches, by beams and columns. I am posting this, because I see Exactly that feature in the 1st Pic of yr room ... Right Hand side extreme. You have a horizontal beam and a wall recessed by 2 to 4 inches. You can use this for a flush mounted sound absorber, and your wife too will find it very nice.

The Carpet on the floor, will help ... a little bit, ONLY at the Upper Mid and High frequencies. ( carpets do not absorb bass by any significant degree.... its a mis-conception. they will Not smoothen out the bass response in your room.

The best way to locate the carpet would be to place it at a first reflection point, of the floor.

To find this, sit in your listening chair at its intended position. Place a mirror on the floor, and have it moved, till you can see the image of each of yr speakers in the mirror on the floor, from your chair. ( This position maybe somewhat different from where you imagine ! )

Place the carpet(s) or panels at these positions. At any other position, they will not do much.

In a small room, you may not even find a first reflection point on the floor. In such a case, the carpet will serve little acoustic purpose...

8th nerve absorption panels

Can you PLEASE post close up pics of these panels, showing their construction ?

The rear view of the panel will probably reveal their construction ?

I would love to learn...

Thanks

Lovely room Ronnie. Congratulations.
You are bit stingy with the photograph sizes. Post some really big ones man

Square Wave,

I have uploaded some pics to a photo gallery. Here is the link...
Link To Gallery

Hi Surreal Bhai,
Have been thinking of congratulating you but something or the other has been disrupting me.
In one word.....AMAZING!!!
I am surprised at the amount of effort you have put in within such a short time period to get this room ready .
I can only wonder how good your system would be sounding now.
Eagerly waiting for forum members from Mumbai to visit your place and share their feedback.
I definitely need some tips from you . Will PM you for the same. Just one question:
If you have to single out one particular item in your room which made the most significant impact (acoustically) to the sonics in your room, what would it be (not considering electronics or the speakers, just the acoustic related items like Carpet, Sofa, Traps, Panels etc...) ?

I ask this because often there are one or two components which majorly affect the room acoustics in a room (good or bad) and identifying it can make life simpler.
E.g, In my room, I know one particular corner which if treated would solve most of the bass related problems at my listening position...
So, did you encounter something like that where adding one particular trap at the corner or placing a acoustic panel or even adding a curtain to your back wall made a huge difference ??

Savyasaachi schrieb:

You said it bombaywalla...nice setup surrealistix...should reming myself to drop in on mumbai when i get there Enjoy!!

Lovely;

Is this set up in Mumbai ?
Where ?
Can I come for a listen ? Please...

I am in Navi Mumbai.

Will be very happy to have you over!