[intamin22]

Hey everyone,

I've recently moved my main speakers into my HT room, and am working on slowly upgrading the room acoustics. My room is 16'-7"x14'-5"x8', with the speakers being on the long wall. However, my room is sort of sectioned off as there is an entry area that's open and a kick out, which is where my speakers sit in front of, and where the tv is. I've attached pictures for a better idea. The speakers are 3'6" from the back wall to the back of the speaker, 4' from the side wall, 8' apart, and 9'-6" from my listening seat.

I currently have bass traps behind my mains. I really enjoyed the improvement I got from just adding the bass traps, which is why I want more, but I don't know where to go. I considered buying a sofit trap, or three, and laying them across the back wall behind my couch. My couch sits about 2 feet off the back wall. I can't stand them in the corners due to window sills/windows getting in the way. Would the traps still be effective, or is there a better solution to treat my room? I've also considered treating the wall where my movie posters are, but would really like to keep them and address bass issues first. Also, should I try to squeeze some more traps in the kick out area behind my speakers? Here are pictures of the setup,

Front stage:


Behind the left speaker:


Behind the right speaker:


Back left of room:


Back right of room:


Back wall:


Side wall:


Thanks for your help!

[drummermitchell]

Shouldn't your bass traps be straddling the two walls that meet the inside corner behind the speakers instead of flat
on the wall.
Nice room by the way.You can even do bass trapping on the wall ceiling corners(that's what I did)after I filled my corners with tritraps.

[max190]

Nice looking room and of course I love the Dyn's.

This maybe painful but I would lower your tv and move your stand and subs forward enough so you can straddle the corners with your traps like drummer suggested. Then add another panel on top to cover floor to ceiling.

By moving the tv down you could add 1 or 2 soffit traps.
Maybe replace the middle poster on the right wall with a 2x4 panel and add another soffit trap in the rear corner.
Looks like the left side of the room is open?

Maybe add some free standing traps behind the LP
 

[bpape]

Adding the soffits along the wall/floor junction behind your seating will help with minimizing some of the 'boom' from your seating being so close to the wall behind you.  It won't address direct cancellations off the rear wall but given the situation, I think this is a good solution.

In the front corners, straddling will certainly help how low they'll reach.  Another option is to actually move them in a little more toward the center to address the bass boundary interactions on that surface.  Both are easy enough to try without any permanent mounting to see which you prefer.

Bryan

[intamin22]

Max and drummer, thanks for the suggestions. I'll consider both, but I'll probably keep the traps in their current orientation...the dreaded WAF; I don't think she'd approve cornered and would prefer flush with the wall.

Adding the soffits along the wall/floor junction behind your seating will help with minimizing some of the 'boom' from your seating being so close to the wall behind you.  It won't address direct cancellations off the rear wall but given the situation, I think this is a good solution.

In the front corners, straddling will certainly help how low they'll reach.  Another option is to actually move them in a little more toward the center to address the bass boundary interactions on that surface.  Both are easy enough to try without any permanent mounting to see which you prefer.

Bryan

Bryan,

I have enough space under the tv and between the traps that I could squeeze another bass trap in there horizontally. Would that be worth the cost/effort? And then I could use the second one where I have the middle movie poster, and add a soffit trap behind the couch. Do you think this would be wise?

Another thought, I could run two soffit traps on the ceiling behind the speakers so that they'd be perpendicular and in the corners, but they would have to be shorter as I only have about three feet. Or, I could put two more bass traps on each inside corner?