Ax-man said:
Buckeye....beautiful setup! I have been keeping up with all of your room treatments and remember you telling me that treatments would certainly help out in my room. Just today I received my GIK Tri-Traps from FedEx and placed them in the front corners late this evening ... I hope you don't mind me sharing a photo of the Tri-Traps in place on your thread, I am pleased with the results and thanks for the recommendation!
Rick.
Rick,
Those tri's look great!!
You are definitely headed down the right path, and Im glad my comments helped. You'll no doubt have fun re-listening to things for the very first time with the Tri's in place. At the least, I would also recommend hanging a 244 behind your big center speaker just above your tv. A panel there will really make a difference. Welcome to the land of clairity & the acoustically treated
For those asking how the GIK panels have impacted my theater? Wow, I dont even know where to begin because the differences were rather obvious, and there were so many of them. I've also discussed these changes quite a bit on the 'treatments' page that you can read. Every little bit helps, and as Rick will testify, you dont have to do the entire room to make an impact.
These are a couple of obvious changes I noticed......
For starters, dialog is noticably clearer. The improvement is most obvious is during movie segments where all hell is breaking loose in a scene. Have you ever noticed that sometimes dialog gets buried in all the action?? Maybe you find yourself adjusting volume levels because of a scene? You'll be amazed how clear dialog remains regardless of what's happening in a scene. In fact, I didnt I had a problem until after it was fixed. I just assumed that my acoustically challened sound was the way that it was supposed to sound. Oh boy, was I ever wrong. Also, are you one of those who complain of harshness of sound or listener fatique, etc, etc, etc?? While it's true that the speakers are to blame for some of that but not all. Bad room acoustics are equally to blame!!! Fix the problems, and you'll be amazed how the harshness vanishes. Even if you dont notice the harshness now, you're gonna really enjoy your sound once it's gone.
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At the low end, the sound comes across cleaner, more controlled, and less overbearing. Do you ever feel like the loud bass segments are too loud relative to the rest of the soundtrack? Do those segments sometimes overpower and bury everything else? Have you ever listened to big speakers blasting in a garage?
Trust me, I have!!
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LOL, and it literally echoes & blasts you out of the room in a horrible boomy kind of way!!
Every carpeted & furnished room has that very same effect taking place, and the panels and traps literally suck that stuff you dont want right out of the room. (excuse my technical terminology)
Because it's not as obvious inside your home, many dont even know they have a problem. However, once it's fixed, there will be little doubt that something very noticable has changed in a very good way. The bass will be clearer, cleaner, & tighter without the boominess. You'll be amazed at how everything from the highs, dialog, and low content all becomes cleaner and crisper than before, and at how much better a room can sound. A subwoofer cannnot go any lower in a treated room, but it will seem that way once the unwanted noise is no longer masking the good sound.
For me, the room upgrade has by far made the largest improvement(dollar-per-dollar) of any single upgrade I have ever made. Experiencing the difference was an epiphany.
