Room treatment, not sure how to start

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Originally Posted by Douglas

Dont be shy on furniture. Place a couple of side tables into the room and place objects on them for decoration and diffraction.

Place a carpet between the listening seat and speakers. Do not place a table between the listening seat and speakers, only the carpet.

Ensure you have heavy curtains on the wall behind the speakers. Place bookcases with books and your music collection behind the listening seat on the back wall. The general rule is dead behind the speakers, live behind the listening seat. Place a couple of paintings on the walls.

Adjust speakers and enjoy music. There is a lot one can do with normal furnishing before investing in expensive acousting devices. Make sure you have a lot of stuff (that you like) in the room to create absorption and diffraction.

Excellent advice, specially considering the very limited information we have about the room. If you have the building details, you can model the room in software such as CARA Computer Aided Room Acoustics and have a a preliminary idea of what type of problems you will find and what treatments will be needed.

And remember there are many successful but very different ways of setting a stereo room - we will read many knowledgeable but conflicting answers in a forum!

[BeerCan]

OK thanks for all the advice. What I am gaining so far is move in and get the room situated as I like it with furniture/furnishings and then worry about room treatments if needed. in the meantime I am going to read the resources some of you provided to see if I can self educate myself.