Make Your Room Sound AMAZING! Audio Treatment Step-by-Step Guide

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Published 2023-05-28
For speakers to sound great you first need a great sounding room! This is your step by step guide to setting up and treating your listening room to make it sound the best it can be.

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0:00 - Intro
1:22 - Step 1: Choosing a Room
4:21 - Step 2: Positioning
9:48 - Step 3: Standing Waves
14:19 - Step 4: Reflections & Decay
19:20 - Step 5: Room Correction

All Comments (21)
  • It all started with reading comments that iems sounded better than airpods. Now you’re rearranging speakers in your bedroom.
  • @sarkardragon
    Grear video, precise, direct, full of information, all that is hard to get out there. Many Youtubers want to sell something, create so many long videos, and some times we just want the raw information. This make all the diference
  • @juanfarrell1088
    By far the best video I've watched on the subject. Thanks man, your delivery is clear and concise, without the exasperating mannerisms a lot of YouTubers regurgitate for engagement. Cheers 💪🏽
  • One of the most valuable lesson in the speaker world: your system will only sound as good as your room does. My living room is not treated (can't do it and don't want it either) and understanding this has saved me a bunch of money on upgrading components, since it now sounds pretty much as good as it gests for my space. Nice video!
  • @CobraChamp
    Absolutely one of the best room correction videos on YouTube! Well done!!!
  • @vamp366
    Awesome awesome video! Gave me everything I needed to start my room treating journey. Thank you so much!
  • @TM-fx2pi
    EXCELLENT video! Thank you. More like this please!
  • @paulk9534
    Really really superb explanation… many thanks🎉
  • Good video, it always astounds me how folk can pay hundreds of £ on useless cables/tweaks and thousands of £ on equipment and sit it in a room with terrible acoustics whilst pontificating about sound quality. I had a budget of £7k for my room/system and spent £3k on gik very similar to yourself and the rest on Dynaudio Lyd 48 + 18s subwoofer and a CXN v2 streamer along with a Umik mic and implementation of roon peq, very happy with the resulting sound.
  • @lukedudgeon8699
    Great video. Cant deny im a little envious that your listening room is about the size of athird of my entire house.
  • @andynonimuss6298
    Well done! Most of everything you said is correct, but the advice on the best Listening Position being at 38% is incorrect. The so-called 38% rule was ONLY ever meant to be a general guideline. It doesn't work universally because it doesn't take the room LENGTH into account. For smaller length rooms a Listening Position of 45.8% is going to be a common position. For a medium-length room, it might be closer to 39.6%, and for a longer room, it might be closer to 32.8%, etc. And technically 38% is a bad position because it's very close to the 4th null located at 37.5%. The correct position is 39.6% which is located between the 4th null at 37.5% and the 6th null at 41.7% (37.5 + 41.7 /2 = 39.6%).
  • @Qthepug
    Very good. Just the video needed.
  • @Mudinyeri
    Excellent primer on the subject. One thing that I have not seen addressed in videos on room optimization/treatment is open floor plans. Most newer homes, at least in the U.S., are build with areas or "moments" rather than rooms, per se. For example, my listening area is about 12' X 12' but it is open to an area (bar/kitchenette) behind it that is about the same size, an area (game/billiards/darts area) to its left that is about 20' X 14' and has a French door to its right. There are no walls on which treatments can be placed. I have installed wood diffusers on the front wall, but don't have side walls, exactly, where additional treatments could be installed. Keep up the good work!
  • @briandunn957
    Great video! However will just say that flat anechoic frequency response is the ideal, but in-room it sounds more natural and appealing to not have flat so much as a tilting downward-right so the bass is about 5dB~ higher than treble on a straight downward slope. Look at the "Spinorama" graphs for estimated in-room response for an anechoic flat speaker (eg Ascend Sierra-LX) to see what this looks like. Perfectly "flat" in the room can sound pretty "flat" and dull, not very robust.
  • @Odyofil
    This was perfectly told 🎉
  • @briandunn957
    In normal living spaces for normal people without dedicated rooms, furniture like couches, chairs, bookshelves, etc. functions as the treatments. Yes, starting with an empty room and no furniture means you'll need other ways to make it less echoy. And remember that it's subjective and the amount of echo that is acceptable is a very subjective personal preference. Some people want "dead" sounding rooms that are more like headphones. Some people don't mind or even prefer varying level of liveliness left in the room.