Mastering Room Acoustics: Your Complete Guide To Perfect Sound!

One of the most important audio illustration videos I have EVER seen posted on YT! The acoustic changes you made, explained, and illustrated, were completely jaw dropping. A+ excellent video Ron.

Ron, you’ve done us all a great service with the thought, planning and numerous resources you’ve invested in this series.

Awesome, Ron. I’m kind of hoping maybe you are applying treatment in stages in subsequent videos to show others the differences it can make as you address certain aspects as opposed to just throwing everything you’ve got into the room at once. Most people will say they can’t or don’t want to do room treatment because of the aesthetic appearance or a significant other. You can go a long way by simply adding certain types of aesthetically pleasing panels to key areas without having to go whole hog such as addressing a handful of key areas of the front wall and first reflection point. Going beyond that, like you and I have done, is the icing on the cake and ultimate performance. But it’s hitting key areas that can get you a long, long way.

love the video Ron! I spent a fair amount of time also treating my room and using REW to get the best placement for speakers and subs and the differences are significant. It amazes me how other audio review channels, especially the ones reviewing ultra high end gear, will not run something as simple as REW to determine how a specific speaker is behaving.

Great work Ron. We have been waiting for this for a Long time. Looking forward to how this unfolds. Greetings to you and yours

One word: Outstanding. Excited to see Parts 2, 3 and 4. For us novices to room acoustics and treatment of existing rooms with furniture, this series is astonishingly valuable in understanding what to treat. Will be measuring my room with REW in coming week so I can follow alongside your recommendations and treatments. LGHJR

Hi, this was an excellent primer (ha ha paint joke) for the rest of the series, I'm looking forward to working through the rest of them. We're a custom audio/video/automation dealer in Toronto, Canada. It's a slow process encouraging customers to look at their room before they invest more in equipment but the payoff is always there. The room is just as important as your gear. Regarding soundproofing and your "room within a room" design, that is of course highly recommended and you're absolutely right to go down that road. One approach that can improve your room isolation even more without adding any additional cost is to use a wider floor plate for your framing and stagger the vertical 2x4s. So use a 2x6 floor (and ceiling) plate, then stagger your studs so they alternate front edge and and back edge of the wider floor plate. That gives you a completely uncoupled interior wall from your exterior surface and can really help prevent noise in and out. Your cost increase is minimal but you do lose a few inches of floor space in all dimensions. Keep up the great work!

Fantastic, thanks Ron for the time and effort you are putting into this. Will, or should be THE reference video for setting up a listening or movie room.

Super! So much work, Ron. This is wonderful! Looking forward to the next episode.

Hi Ron, what a wonderful job you're doin. You certainly help all those music lovers enjoy listening to beautiful sound. Great regard to you and your channel!

I really appreciate your hard works, and yes it’s not easy for a simple data collection and comparison. I’m not an audiophile, I’m still learning. This is my thought to share from the comparison (base to sound, not from graph/data). I like the sound ambient from furnished room, rather than empty room. Furnished room creates much softer and smooth sound. Stereo effect is much clearer. Very much opposite sound ambient from empty room, with little echo. Definitely this is due to full sound wave reflection. If you try cover (or just hang) a thick fabrics on all side of walls (and ceiling as well if possible), I think we will experience much better sound clarity. (note: I’ve use earphone connected to DAC adaptor USB type-C to listen your audio). Waiting to see more videos. Thanks again.

Thank you Ron for making this video! First one I have seen that explains how, what and why of using REW for beginners, like myself. Can’t wait for the next installment!

Thank you for your hard work. Really amazing video thanks to your qualitative down to earth approach. Extremely valuable learnings and looking forward watching the next parts. Thanks again!

Well done! I'm glad someone is taking the time to do this properly

Im listening to this in a fully treated room through some PMC tower speakers. Like yourself I have been on a little journey the past 4/5 years increasing the treatment after measurements as I went along. Its totally addictive. Far more enjoyable than buying new equipment. My latest improvement was a while back when I increased the depth of the whole front and back walls to 45cm deep. Side walls and ceiling are 15cm deep, with added diffusion. Really enjoy your videos on acoustics. Your room looks and sounds great : )

Hi Ron, absolutey valuable guide, thanks for all of your hard work! It would be great to have all these room acoustics videos and the LOTS video added to a playlist in your channel 🙏

Hi Ron, I wish you the best of luck with your acoustic room treatment. Although I now have my listening room extensively treated to provide tip top sound quality, it was a very long, difficult and expensive struggle. Just sticking a few panels on each wall won't cut the mustard.

Awesome content, Ron. Thank you.

Very well made, I've been taking measurements and playing some music before treating my room, but life taking much time off the project, it's been a few years already, and the room isn't finished yet! Not sure I'll find all the files when I'm done. I can hear every bit off change very well, and looking forward too hearing the next steps. Thanks heaps.

I'm so jealous ! Your untreated room response is far better than my treated room with optimal speaker placement etc. The decay time is crazy though and got better with just the furnishings. Looking forward to the final results...