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In Reply to: Can one tweak too much? posted by Thur on August 6, 1999 at 10:38:53:
Jack G is right, you can overdamp a room, but what you're more likely to do is to overdamp it within certain frequency ranges. Carpet and soft furnishings, for example, don't absorb evenly over the whole range.Bass absorption is particularly hard to achievve.
I'd guess from your story that your dealer's room is overdamped in the mids - voice range in particular - but probably not in the bass since bass is a big selling point :-) You wouldn't want to touch that in a showroom, would you?
Speaker placement and listening position can help a lot to minimise room effects, but this really becomes more viable as the room becomes larger. Small rooms don't give you much space to play in and make it more difficult.
I've found Jon Risch's DIY roomlenses really beneficial in my listening area which is on the small side. They don't absorb much but they do diffuse and difract at frequencies starting from around 800 Hz on up. They definitely won't overdamp plus they don't take up much space (important in smaller rooms).
In a larger room I'd have no hesitation in trying some of Jon's other acoustic treatments - panels, bass traps, and diffuser. I think you're much less likely to run into problems with properly designed acoustic treatments than you are with excesses of soft furnishings and carpets, and Jon's treatments are moveable so you can easily remove an item if you put too many in. He gives recommendations about number and placement in his instructions and too many should not be a problem.
Bottom line: good room acoustic treatment can work wonders, bad treatment does guess what?
David Aiken
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