[bpape]

Not scorn, but for clarity and accuracy....

The plants will help to scatter upper mid and high frequencies somewhat.  They will not diffuse. There is a big difference.  Diffusion provides even and random redistribution in both space and time.  Plants will not do this evenly and in both dimensions.  Also, you'd want to address both 'sides' evenly so if you're going to go this way, you'd want to have 2 plants that are identical and set up as mirror imaged of each other if in the front or rear of the room.

Bryan

[jk@home]

LOL, mirror imaged fake ficus plants  . I got mine from a local Garden Ridge store. They have the plastic house plants crowded together in a spot in the middle of the store, looks like the Amazon rain forest. You go in there, and you're lucky to come out alive.

Thanks for the clarification.

[DTB300]

The best 'close' diffuser I have used is a combination absorber diffuser by RPG - the BAD panel ( the Arc curved panel is even better than the straight), you can sit within a couple of ft and not have any strange effects like you sometimes do with QRD type diffusers. Kinetics also do a product that is similar.

I have had very good success with the BAD Panels in my room, as I sit 4-5' from my rear wall.   I placed them in front of GIK 244 on my back wall.  For my room and my seat, the BAD panels performed better than a QED.  I have BAD ARC panels on the way and plan on trying them in many places in my room to see how they perform.

I contacted Kinetics about their panels, they responded asking where I lived, then NEVER heard back from them again, even after a repeated Email.    Guess they did not want my business.

Dan

[Alex Reynolds]

The BAD panels are an excellent product so I'm sure you're quite happy with them and will be happy with the BAD Arcs as well. You could probably sit closer than you are and they'd still be quite effective. Similar with other diffusing and scattering devices that use simple sequences like the maximum length sequence, among other pseudo-random binary patterns with smaller slats or holes, you get good effectiveness at a wide range of distances. I have a pair of our Monster traps with our new scatter plates inside on my rear wall about 6' away from me and they don't seem to cause damaging lobing (comb filtered like response from reflections) even when I'm only 2' away from them. Theoretically they will at those distances, it just isn't very audible at all (not like you would get 2' away from a larger 1D diffusor)