Hey everyone, so I've had at least one suggestion come in from a manufacturer, Primacoustics.
They suggest for the room of my size, I should have between 70 to 95 square feet of acoustic room treatment.
That is for my room rounded to 16ft x 11ft x 9ft respectively.
My suggestion of going with the Acoustic London 10 Kit plus the Four Pack of the London Bass Traps is a great start as it would be a total of 76 square feet of treatment available. They did suggestion a pair of ceiling clouds over the listening area as well, which would obviously add to the coverage and include the ceiling.
And as expected....here's a 3D modelling of the suggestion...
Primacoustic Room Designer
And here's with the ceiling clouds...
Primacoustic Room Designer
I see now that panel placement is symmetrical, contrary to all that talk on the internet that brought on a lot of the rules from my original post.
Going with the square feet method of tackling treatments, since a 24" x 48" panel is 8 square feet, there were recommendations for me to use 10 of these panels by a local acoustic panel supplier. That's 80 square feet and meets exactly what Primacoustic's suggested.....but I know for a fact these panels would cost me less than London Kit and Bass Traps......but wouldn't give me all this pattern diversity. Would I really need all this pattern diversity? Probably not. This same local company also sells a 6-Pack of Acoustic Panel Insulation which is Roxul / Rockwool Fabrock 60 - 24" x 48" x 1.5" thick for $129.99 CAD. So no duty or added shipping cost because I can pick these up locally. Their fully assembled panels start at $75CAD and end around $115CAD each.
There's not a huge savings between 24" x 48" or 12" x 48", so this makes me wonder if I'm better off going with the larger size to start to test how the treatments go and maybe add smaller panels later.
Here's the specs on the Rockwool:
ROCKWOOL FABROCK™
They suggest for the room of my size, I should have between 70 to 95 square feet of acoustic room treatment.
That is for my room rounded to 16ft x 11ft x 9ft respectively.
My suggestion of going with the Acoustic London 10 Kit plus the Four Pack of the London Bass Traps is a great start as it would be a total of 76 square feet of treatment available. They did suggestion a pair of ceiling clouds over the listening area as well, which would obviously add to the coverage and include the ceiling.
And as expected....here's a 3D modelling of the suggestion...
Primacoustic Room Designer
And here's with the ceiling clouds...
Primacoustic Room Designer
I see now that panel placement is symmetrical, contrary to all that talk on the internet that brought on a lot of the rules from my original post.
Going with the square feet method of tackling treatments, since a 24" x 48" panel is 8 square feet, there were recommendations for me to use 10 of these panels by a local acoustic panel supplier. That's 80 square feet and meets exactly what Primacoustic's suggested.....but I know for a fact these panels would cost me less than London Kit and Bass Traps......but wouldn't give me all this pattern diversity. Would I really need all this pattern diversity? Probably not. This same local company also sells a 6-Pack of Acoustic Panel Insulation which is Roxul / Rockwool Fabrock 60 - 24" x 48" x 1.5" thick for $129.99 CAD. So no duty or added shipping cost because I can pick these up locally. Their fully assembled panels start at $75CAD and end around $115CAD each.
There's not a huge savings between 24" x 48" or 12" x 48", so this makes me wonder if I'm better off going with the larger size to start to test how the treatments go and maybe add smaller panels later.
Here's the specs on the Rockwool:
ROCKWOOL FABROCK™
