Pair of speakers…$3000
Matching amp and receiver…$2000
Interconnects and wires…$750
Hearing you tell the story about how you hated the way it sounded when you got it home so you brought it all back to the guy who sold it to you…priceless.
Knowing how and where you are going to use your audio system is the first step to a successful solution. The most overlooked variable in the equation is the room itself.A room can look great and sound great. Sometimes all it takes is a little creative accoustical treatment. Those modern looks, deco styles, and hard marble surfaces look great, but create terrible room acoustics that can cause listening fatigue and stress. Simple room treatments can improve the acoustics and add to the design elements of the room. Here are some simple ideas:
Thick, absorbant carpets with good padding.
Soft couches and chairs.
Ceiling tiles with textures. These diffuse sound and can absorb sound energy. Some even look like tinplate ceilings.
Curtains and soft blinds. Heavy curtains trap sound waves better than light and airy curtains which have little trapping capabilities.
Soft walls. These are decorative walls covered in fabric designed to trap sounds.
Small wall art treatments. These take the form of paintings, textile-covered surfaces, or actual sound absorbing art.
Large wall treatments. These can be textile-covered sections of wall or entire walls. The materials behind the fabric surface can have absorbtive and/or diffusive properties. These are popular in theater rooms and can be from acoustic treatment leaders like Auralex.
Specialty sound traps. Specially sized tuned tube traps. Put those decorative columns to better use by constructing them with tuned ports for absorbing specific frequencies that cause a room to sound “boomy”.
If all these options don’t fit into your stark, shiny, modern decor, there is another option. Have big parties! People make great audio traps but they tend to talk so the drone of the conversations may interfere with the music experience.
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