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camrsz

Enthusiast
We remodeled our house and now have a vaulted ceiling. will cause any problems when I set up my HT? are there things I should do or not do?
 
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bombarde32

Audioholic
Depends ...

Any room will have its own accoustical properties. What's worse is they can drastically change with the type/amount/placement of furniture, pictures, wall coverings, people, flooring, etc etc etc. For example, my last room had a 1 second echo when empty. Once all the "stuff" was in it was dead.

The first thing you can do, if you don't like the sound you are getting, is run the EQ program on your receiver (assuming you have that). Something like Audyssey. I had a horrible standing wave on my sub that was corrected by Paradigm's PBK kit.

If that still doesn't make you happy then there's a lot of other stuff you can get into but I'd start there and see how it goes.
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Open questions: How far along is this room? Is it done? Still need flooring? Also, is this mostly HT or is music in it as well? I prefer dead rooms for HT but music ... music needs reverb.
 
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bpape

Audioholic Chief
Does the vault run front to back or side to side in the room? Is it in the middle of the room whichever way it runs?

Reflections from a vault that runs the length of the room at the peak can cause reflections to come from the other side of the room by the time they get to you.

In either orientation, it's another corner and another feature acting like a big horn. Straddling that peak with some treatments parallel to the floor will minimize those issues and at the same time give you some additional broadband bass control.

Bryan
 
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