So you have made up your mind to invest in some kind of home theatre equipment. You visit the showroom of the dealer and are blown away by the top of the line system and spend 5000 dollars and return home. Being full of exhilaration, you spend hours mounting and installing everything, until the big moment when you drop your favorite DVD only to find out that you are missing the smooth and striking response you heard at the store. So what exactly is missing in your band room?
The bottom line is that once you have reached the mid-range quality in your AV equipment, the weakest link is going to be the room acoustic baffles, the most neglected aspect of setting up a home theater.
Well, where do you get started? If it is within your budget, it would be well worth the investment to hire a professional acoustical consultant, but if you have to keep your cost down, you can definitely enhance your room acoustics by following some easy rules:
• Add sound absorbing materials to lessen low frequency accumulation.
• Treat half of your wall space with acoustical absorption panels to lessen echoes and flutter.
• If possible, address extra external noise.
There are various noise control products, including industrial doors to keep undesired sounds from entering your home theatre. Duct silencers and duct and pipe fail to lessen HVAC noise. Isolation clips and vinyl noise barriers can be used to decouple ceilings and walls and thereby interrupting the transmission of sound transmission, and also acoustic doors and door seal kits. The main thing to keep in mind is that a moderate sound system in a well tuned room will outlast a top quality sound system in an inferiorly tuned room.
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