[jjcritch]

This is the link to a 3D video of my HT design I have in my head.

Home theater 3D rendering


Check out the space I have to work with in the attachments here
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/attac...chmentid=81559
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/attac...chmentid=81560
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/attac...chmentid=81561




My question is, what curtains or material should I use for the wall drapes to absorb the most sound?

I do not want these to be acoustically transparent. Just the opposite, I want them to be my primary source of acoustical absorption. I want to really deaden the room-- like a recording studio.


Anybody have input on what fabric/material/foam...these should be constructed from or where to buy pre-fabricated drapes for just this purpose?





Full video: Full HT vid

 

[wildfire99]

None. Acoustical panels (even DIY made with compressed fiberglass) spaced from the wall enough to absorb your desired frequencies, covered with acoustically transparent drapes.


(A dead room like a recording studio is not a very enjoyable room anyway.)

 

[jjcritch]

I thought that was the answer I was going to get.


So I guess I will do acoustical panel behind the drapes?


The reason I wanted a dead room was because my computer is the center of my audio/video experience and I was thinking of adding room effects back in in the post processing. However I am sure this would not allow for the room coverage that is recommended.


Any good threads about this?

 

[wildfire99]

Personally I would spring for bass traps in the corners, acoustic panels at all the major reflection points on the walls, maybe on the back wall too, and then a nice thick drape (of whatever is convenient or possibly fire-retardant also) everywhere else, unless you don't like that and just want painted walls. That would get you there well enough. People aren't used to hearing deadness in a room, it freaks them out.


Just having the panels and bass-traps puts you ahead of 95% of everything out there to start with, IMO.


There are tons of threads in the construction forum, and on some other DIY forums/websites, where you can see what other people did and then do the human thing--copy them.