Hi @Hawkmoon ,
I don’t live in a house, I have a flat. We are on the top floor of a small residential building.
We have a large balcony which is accessed through glass doors.
There is an access to the balcony from the kitchen and another one from the living room.
I had planned to close the access from the living room. Finally my technician suggested that we could add a door in the acoustic treatment allowing access to the balcony.
So there will be a large double door to enter the listening room and a smaller one to access the glass door, and therefore the balcony, from the listening room.
These doors are a real technical challenge. Imagine 52 cm thick doors filled with sound absorbers. Structurally it’s a real puzzle. I don’t even know yet how much it will cost . The doors are being designed…
We have decided not to “treat” the glass door to the balcony. This will allow, if desired, daylight to enter the listening room by opening that thick door in the “acoustic wall”.
All other windows and glass surfaces in the listening room have been closed and treated.
The room will not only be treated for music, but also isolated from small outside noises.
The silence will therefore be of higher quality, which is an often neglected parameter.
The quieter the silence, if I may say so, the more it allows us to hear the tiny nuances in music.