Room Acoustic

This topic is very interesting especially of late that there are many of our customers beginning to realise the importance of room acoustic.

Never did I realise that the 'bug' start 'biting' each one of them at a rapid rate. I have always stretch that room acoustic is being ignored by most of us. A good system in a poor acoustic room is just as bad as a poor system.

Not all of us can afford the luxury of a dedicated room or a specially designed room for music or home theater. However, all is not lost. We can still do some acoustic treatments (by either DIY or sourcing the acoustic treatment products) to rectify or minimise the problems.

DIY will be the cheaper route to go. Only that you need some tools and a little bit of skill to do that. The end result might not be as good looking as the commercially available products but the satisfaction derived from it is PRICELESS (We shall deal on that later as we are going to cover on the DIY project by a fellow HT enthusiast)

Before that, hold on to your horses. Don't start buying those rockwool, building frames and so forth. One needs to understand acoustic principles before embarking on the 'handyman' DIY journey.

There are many articles online that explain in great length on this topic. Here is one of the website that provides such informative articles.

http://www.audioholics.com/education/acoustics-principles/

One will ask what sort of treatment to be used. Well, that very much depends on the room itself. Bass traps, diffusor, absorption panel, etc. are the most commonly found treatment available.

Ethan Winer, the acoustic guru done a very good with his useful website.

http://www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html

It might take some time to digest the many articles but it is very useful. If one understands it and start applying it in his/her room, the end result would be very satisfying.

Having said that, how could the WAF slips my thought?