Where should I place panels?

[David Gaudreau]

So where would I want to place some Acoustic panels in this room. Sorry I'm not good at drawing. Suggestions

Thanks

 

[mtrycrafts]

So where would I want to place some Acoustic panels in this room. Sorry I'm not good at drawing. Suggestions

Thanks

Hey, that is a good drawing and setup Perhaps one of the acoustic company's person posting here will chime in and send you their suggestions. I think you need some pro inputs.

By the way, I think you may want to pull the front speakers closer to the screen.

 

[ParadigmDawg]

I may be able to answer this when I am sober but Chris, Andrew, Glen or Brian would be a better choice.

 

[avaserfi]

Quickly looking at the diagram there are a couple placement recommendations I would make along side a few quick acoustic ones. I am sure some of the GIK guys will add more to the mix though.

First placement:

It looks like your BP7000s are placed very close to the side and front walls. I would try to move them in and forward a little. Try to keep them equally spaced from both walls to insure minimized boundry interference.

With the subs I would try and see if it is possible for you to do [diagonally] cross room placement with opposite phase. If you really want to have the best placement for the subwoofers parallel across from eachother in the room the center would probably be your best bet. I strongly suggest using a free program like Room EQ Wizard to set up your subs ideally. This program will let you tune your subs given location limitations and such.

Some acoustic advice:

First I would try and insure that the two doors in the room are solid wood. As far as some placement goes I would try and treat both first reflections created by the BP7000.

I would also try to bass trap each corner, but if not possible due to the doors at least the front corners and possible some wall to ceiling corners.

Absorption on the side walls between the towers and the first surrounds would probably be beneficial as well as between the second surrounds and the back wall.

You could also probably benefit from some diffusion between the two rear surrounds.

Thats my quick work up. Hopefully the GIK guys fix/add anything I missed.

 

[Glenn Kuras]

sitting in airport in Chicago so only got a min to answer. BTW it is -5 degrees here.

You are going to want to cover as many corners as possible in the room. Also I would place a panel behind each front speaker to help with SBIR and also some thicker panels on the back wall to help with nulls coming off the back wall.
Beyond that you will need panels in the early reflection points on the right and left walls. See the following diagram to give you a few ideas.

Glenn

 

[bpape]

Ava is right on the money with placement. The fronts are way too far apart and too close to the side walls.

The diagram Glenn posted is a good general idea. In a home theater environment, you'll want to replace the diffusion on the side walls with more absorbtion and add additional absorbtion on the front wall. The front wall should be completely dead.

Bryan