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Post Subject: A big room with good acoustics before treatment, and some other audio tips.Posted by xandcg on: 12/8/2016
Hello,
Can you give me some ideas for a good room? Also, audio related ideas are always welcome too.
The initial plan is a room with 5m H x 10m W x 14m D (about 16,5ft H x 33ft W x 46ft D). Solid floor, probably porcelain tile (chess floor style), and solid brick walls, probably with one more layer (external) of concrete brick, with the eventually needed isolation material between them.
The biggest doubt is about what kind of ceiling would work better for audio: concave, flat, cathedral, or what? What angle etc?
The bar at the end should have a mezzanine, then it will not be all open. It will have external columns and will be higher than the rest of the room.
This is a figurative drawer of what I am planning to do when I will able to do, but I tried to keep the dimensions more or less correctly:
It is in the very early stage and still will take a while before I start to do anything (I am also slow to make these kind of decisions), but the idea is to have 7 ways loudspeakers. A 5 ways ~>120 Hz module, like Cessaro Omega, plus a pair of full size >50 Hz exponential horns, and sub-woofers. The sub-woofers will probably be big tapped horns.
I aim to have the >50 Hz horn made of reinforced concrete slabs. I do not know if it may work well sound-wise but I am also thinking about a internal finishing of (polished) epoxy or metallic epoxy.
I will not build the loudspeakers myself, and if I find the right person at the proper time, I want to follow the ALE path from >50 Hz, or eventually GOTO.
The listening position is desired to be about 4,5m (about 15ft) from the front of the upper-bass horn.
The electronics but amplifiers should be located in a separated acoustic isolated room.
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