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Originally Posted by Grasshopper
Greetings. I am in the process of finalizing plans for finishing our basement.
With the "look" we have in mind, we want to have the wall behind the speakers (home theater and 2 channel system) be a stacked stone wall similar to this:
https://www.houzz.com/photos/clean-r...vw-vp~39655725
https://www.houzz.com/photos/richmon...hvw-vp~5482539
My speakers will be out into the room 2' from the back wall.
Part of me thinks the stone wall may actually help with diffusion.
Will something like this sound good, or are there significant issues that I am not thinking about?
I'd love your feedback- (for what it's worth, I don't want to have a heavily "treated" room at least in terms of the look. My space will be a wide-open 1,000 sf room, so it isn't a dedicated theater/audio room). |
I would think that the irregularities of the stone should work as diffusers.
Some speakers are designed in a way that diffusers are desired/required (MBLs for example). So the kind of speaker that you own plays a part.
But I would think that stone surface is hard and reflective so that is also a factor.
Everything in your room (room dimensions, furniture, wall and floor treatments, equipment placement, materials, etc.) will affect the sound.
And that is why room correction software exists. Some digital preamps come with that feature.
But you can also add room correction to your existing system via other means such as Roon. With room correction you can have the "look" that you are looking for AND optimize the sound in your (very large) room at the same time.
Fwiw, many of today's SOTA performing arts center use "room correction" software to improve the sound.