Making Living Rooms Sound Better (One)

March 3, 2025

Making Living Rooms Sound Better (1)

Many people purchase audio equipment and find that it doesn’t sound as good as they had expected or as good as they had tried it out in the store.

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Then they began pointing fingers at the machinery for not working well or at the technicians for being unable to fix the problems effectively.

They thought careless comments on the Internet were actual and bought expensive audio cables, stands, and other accessories, believing these upgrades would enhance sound quality. However, these purchases did not fix the exact problem.

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Various factors, such as the room environment and inadequate spatial acoustics, can contribute to an unpleasant sound experience from a sound system.

The acoustic treatment of a room significantly influences the sound quality of the audio system.

If we express it as a percentage, it can range from 20% to 40%. The ratio may vary based on different speakers and placements.

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Therefore, many speakers are tested in an anechoic chamber during development to measure their original frequency response curve.

The frequency response curves of a quality speaker are balanced.

But if your room does not have these acoustic treatments, the sound will reflect back and forth when the speakers are placed in such a room.

It will simultaneously cause other objects in the room to vibrate. Currently, the room serves as a large speaker box.

In addition to the direct sound from your speakers, you can also hear the reflected sound from the room, and the proportion of this reflected sound may even be very high.

To maintain professionalism, the undesirable sounds in a room include reflected sound, flutter echo, reverberation time, standing waves, and background noise.

These will significantly affect your sound effects.

Audiophiles often say that while beginners focus on equipment, true audiophiles pay attention to the room's acoustics. This statement holds a lot of truth.

Someone asked, "How can we eliminate these annoying sounds in the room?"

Can someone with experience come over to reconfigure the sound system?

Room acoustic problems cannot be solved entirely by debugging the sound system.

There are only two ways to solve room acoustic problems:

1. Tear down the walls around your room or move the speakers outside to listen. However, this may not be very realistic.

2. Apply acoustic treatment to the walls, ceiling, and floor to absorb excess sound in the room.

By doing this, you can appreciate the balanced sound of your speakers, resulting in improved audio quality.

Acoustic treatment is required to achieve optimal sound quality in professional recording studios, radio stations, concert halls, and cinemas.

Acoustic treatment in a private cinema is complicated and often needs notable experts and tools. The process is detailed, making it hard to explain fully in a blog.

Many of our customers have a common concern: "I don’t have a dedicated home theater space. I want to listen to music and watch movies in my living room. I don’t want to spend money on complex acoustic treatments. Can you suggest some easy ways to improve the sound in my room?"

In the next blog, we will show you easy ways to improve the sound quality of your living room sound system using common household items

That's all for this time. We hope you have a great time!

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