The Room Treatment Guide
Achieve Studio Quality Sound by treating your listening space.
Room treatment is a critical part of building a home cinema but is often overlooked.
Let Roland, the owner and editor of Simple Home Cinema, convince you that it is a worthwhile investment and take the guesswork out of it.
What’s In the Book?
- I introduce you to the latest research in Sound Theory and Room Treatment Theory
- I show you the types of room treatments and how to place them within the room
- How to take a more scientific approach to room treatment using RT60 figures
- How to read the performance metrics on commercial treatment panels
- What materials are best for both absorption and diffusion panels
- How to build Wall and Ceiling panels for your home cinema cheaply
- How to save $1000s by building room treatment panels yourself instead of getting them from a shopHow to customise the panels to your home decor and get that “wife-friendly” lookHow to hang the panels in a way that will not destroy your walls or ceiling
The Room Treatment Guide Benefits
- Improved sound quality and speech intelligibility
- Maximised subwoofer performance with smoother and tighter bass!
- The walls literally disappear and the sound comes from beyond the walls!
- Gorgeous natural reverberations like in a purpose-built multiplex!
Why Room Treatment?
Digital Room Correction (DRC) has come a long way, especially in recent years. However, it is a misconception that Digital Room Correction can get rid of all issues.
While it is true that DRC can improve the frequency and time-domain response of a system, it cannot fully take away distortion introduced by early reflections and room modes, especially when those modes create nulls – areas of low pressure in the room.
What’s more, most DRC systems focus on correcting the frequency-domain, but not the time-domain. Even those that focus on both, time-domain issues of phase and group-delay are easy to fix. Reverberation and smearing of the impulse response is nearly impossible to fix without room treatment.
It is true that in the age of Active Room Treatment aka Trinnov and Dirac Live, this smearing in the bass response is going to be easier to fix – as long as you have the correct number of and location for your subwoofers.
However, this is not the case for the majority of setups and not true of anything above around 200Hz. So room treatment, even in the most advanced home theatres, continues to be a critical aspect in achieving ideal sound quality and transparency.
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