Hi All,

I am looking for some cheap solution to improve living room acoustic. my room have ceramic tiles and plaster ceiling. the entire left side is cover with curtain and right side is open to dining are and kitchen. in front of the tv is a glass coffee table and leather sofa. beside getting a rug does a ticker curtain help? is there any cheap way for acoustic improvement you guys can help to share? may be with stuff that can be purchase from ikea?

can start with a small carpet/rug under the sub. Can add spikes under speakers too...

Was wondering how you place your rear speakers?

not yet determine which surround speaker package to buy, still shopping arround, going to include stuff for acoustic improvement in my budget.

If got pictures better...

make a theatre room with those special sponge la

cannot affort this kind of elite setup, no space and money

Before you can go about improving, you need to know if there are any problems with ur room at all. I would suggest if you really want to know what to improve, you get some frequency charts, waterfall charts and spectral decay. This way, you can attack the problem. For all u may know, it might be pretty good.

Or at least let us know where ur problems are at the moment...Bass too boomy, losing stereo imaging, music too bright?

This post has been edited by anfieldude: Oct 29 2009, 03:06 PM

it's a living room - and generally is heavily subjected to WAF

i think basic home decor can help start it off - the idea is to break up flat surfaces as much as you can, so

- cloth covering for the glass coffee table (this is a major culprit)
- rug directly in front of TV
- bookshelf / display cases sides and behind

will help break up first reflections

after decorating the living room, then try and get charts

What's WAF?

Wife Acceptance FActor

Ha Ha. I learned new term today.

I tot english teacher would know this.

Bro, I am surprised by your question Or too much of 'WTF' input

Not easy to do acoustic treatment. Like anfieldude mentioned, you need to know the problem first. This way saves a lot of pain and unnecessary treatment or treating the wrong area.

My setup was initially at my living area. IIRC, it sld be about 26' x 20' with big open area leading to dining and a smaller opening to kitchen. Not easy considering WAF. So, ended up moving to one of the rooms upstair when HM gave the green light. The move was a quick one in case Hm change her mind

i going through ikea catalogue to see any cheap stuff. maybe put a lot of fluffy stuff on the bookshelf and sofa

Check this out

Not in my vocab la coz the wife choose furniture n I choose electric stuff and neither can argue with what the other has chosen

That way peace will be maintained throughout the galaxy

this uncle WAF is different from other people got panel hanging all over the place.

interesting is he have just put the speaker with diy decoupler on what look like a chair. no spike or expensive stand

This post has been edited by robertngo: Oct 30 2009, 12:01 AM

The challenge with acoustics is trying to balance it with aesthetics.

That's why I also haven't seriously looked into it for fear of upsetting the current aesthetics. I'm also not keen to have too many panels hanging all over the place.