Tagged: acoustic treatment

Flutter echo blurs detail in parallel-wall rooms without obvious boom. Here's how to find it cheaply and kill it without over-treating.

In a statement room, piling on absorption kills the air around the music. Here's when diffusion is the better tool, and where I've seen it misused.

Most bass trap purchases are undersized or misplaced. Here's the measurement-based case for how many you need and where they actually work.

The mirror trick still finds first reflection points better than any app. Here's how to locate them and what treatment actually earns its keep.

On six-figure systems the room is still the weakest link. Here's how much of the budget acoustic treatment should actually get, and why owners resist it.

Two traps help, four help more, but the eighth one rarely does much. Here's how to work out where your room's bass treatment budget stops paying off.

Room correction software can flatten a frequency response, but it can't fix decay, timing or a bad first reflection. Here's where the line actually sits.

Before you spend a cent on acoustic panels, find your actual first reflection points with a mirror and a torch. Here's the method, and why it beats guessing.

Where to put the first dollar in a home cinema build, and why most people spend it on the wrong box first. A spending order from twelve years of installs.

Six-figure speakers, dead-flat frequency response, and a room that still sounds wrong. The fix is usually a diffusion problem, not an absorption one.

Corner bass traps are the default advice, but they don't fix every room mode. Here's how to actually find where your bass problems live before you buy foam.