Your room looks fabulous. Love the attention to detail. The ceiling panels look epic!
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Indeed. I have had alot of help with measurements and structuring room treatment. As stated at the beginning.
@HappyListener was the catalyst and @Cohen1263 has helped with room arrangement.
The fish tank is gone. The speakers and TV unit have moved so exactly opposite to listening position. It’s been carefully considered.
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Hi @Dan_M,
Very many thanks for the compliments. Actually, there is more to the ceiling treatment than initially meets the eye.
Check out my one and only thread (slightly jokey thread about International football and HiFi), it currently has a question about how to successfully cut acoustic treatment polystyrene.
Maybe you have some tips from Art School you could share?
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I hope you didn’t flush them down the toilet!!! Poor fishies…
Good to hear it has made a difference. My calibrated mic arrived today and I am currently trying to measure my room. It is a really interesting thing to do.
Nice work on the paintings by the way!
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As said, you are just guessing what you may or may not need.
Just doing what others have done or seen in pictures isn’t the right way to go about it, but there you go.
I have spoken to a few guys about it all before, and both said the first thing to do is get the room professionally measured. They both kind of laughed when i said should i get this and do that.
As said the only way to do it is to find out what problems the room has, and then deal with that, or you can overdo certain area’s or not enough.
I stopped before i even started on this as to do itright certain costs and would take over the room.
Fish are relocated to spare bedroom! All done carefully. Quite a big job in itself.
The system has all been moved around and cables need to settle. System was turned off for around 8 hours. So will take time to sort itself out.
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Room treatment can be tricky to get right with measuring gear or not.
One alternative to pictures and the like on the wall is to use fabrics and hang tapestry or decorative quilts. They can be very effective. A temporary way to hear if it will make a positive difference is to hang a thick blanket on the wall before committing to it or buying anything expensive.
I remember trying some tea folded towels hanging from a high vaulted ceiling which was causing some odd affects in the room for a friend. After some experimentation of how many, where and how long we ended up using some flags of different countries and it helped a lot.
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They are probably glad of the peace and quiet. 
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They love Russian Techno!
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You are a bad boy hero……keep it up❤️
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Yes measurement is the best way but it can depend on how far you are going with the treatments. If you’re doing full acoustic treatments, measuring for sure is the only way to go. But if you have a completely untreated room & want to add some basic treatments, this is far more likely to have positive results. Most rooms are lively, with lots of reflective surfaces. If you add proper bass traps (very unlikely a typical sized listening room would not benefit from this & by bass trap I mean a large absorber that’s designed just for low frequencies, not a panel you hang on the wall) & just absorption at the first reflection points on the side walls (with proper designed broadband absorption, panels that are 1-2" thick aren’t proper broadband absorbers & are typically the cause of dead sounding rooms) this would be extremely common & basic. Yes, room acoustics are extremely complicated but by adding a couple basic treatments to an otherwise untreated room, you should be pretty safe.
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The problem you can run into when doing things like this is, these types of treatments are so thin that they are just absorbing the highest of frequencies, which is typically not what you want to do. If you just have these thin treatments, you end up with a dead sounding room & haven’t really absorbed any of the lower down frequencies that are typically more of a problem.
Broadband absorption is exactly as it sounds, you want to absorb the whole frequency band equally. The lower the frequency you want to absorb, the thicker the treatment needs to be.
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To put another way, the likes of GIK will always start with corners, and front & back walls, as these areas offer ‘easy wins’. Yes, measurements help, but only if you’re prepared to go much further e.g. ceilings, multi-reflection points, even floors.
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Exactly, all rooms are different but we can calculate reflection points, we can calculate room modes, etc. So we know where to start/the most basic treatments.
How do you hang the panels over your tv?
And is your TV on a lift or something cause it is lower on the second pic than on the first.
Looks brilliant as always Dan, why did you go two stacks? I think looks wise two stacks is the sweet spot
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I couldn’t work it with bass trap. Took up too much room. I tried it and wasn’t practical. So back to two.
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I ordered some panels, each has 1 kg weight. They have a self adhesive back. But I don’t want to stick them to the wall, which has a wallpaper, because if I don’t like the effects, it will degrade the wall paper.
So my question : do you think I can stick them with blue tack?
1 kg panel will adhere to the wall with blue tack ?
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Maybe use silicone and prop them until they set. Or contact adhesive spray form. Check with manufacturer on fixing methods.
