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Originally Posted by Shan2nu  Our music room is yet to be built,
Dimensions : I've heard that a room should ideally be built in such a way that the width is 1.14 times and the length is 1.39 times the height of the room. EG : If height is 10ft, width should be 11.4ft and lenght should be 13.9ft.
I'm planning on having corner bass traps, wall bass traps, rear wall scatter boxes, first reflection traps, floor carpet, thick wall curtains etc made for the room. What sort of dampening material (for the traps) would be ideal, at a reasonable price?
Speaker Placement : This is one area thats got me scrathing my head (especially wrt to the surround speakers). |
Room dimesions should be such that the wavelengths for each boundary are different. In fact if you can make the room so that there are no parallel surfaces it would be great. Have you seen how in many theaters the stage end is narrower with a lower ceiling than the audience end?
So keep as many boundaries non parallel as possible.
You could study the construction of Tube trabs and Room diffusors to get ideas on where to place them and how to make them.
For sound absrobtion and diffusion fiberglass (used as insulation) is a good option. Other options are wavy or pin hole foam, egg crates, etc..
However none of these options have a high WAF. Hence carpets (silk carpets hung on walls), book cases (the books should be of different sizes), curtains, etc.. are often used in most houses.
Avoid early reflections. So keep sound absorbing material on he walls and flloor near the main speakers and subwoofer (and if possible near near the rear speakers as well).
Since you wer building the room from scratch wire the room for 8.1 inase you want to upgrade later. 8.1 would include 3 rear speakers in addition to your front and side speakers. Also 8.1 wiring allows you the optionof using a 6.1 system as well.