How To Make Suspended Floor Listening Room Work

In part 4 of how to build a dedicated listening room we will discuss the other room surfaces such as ceiling and front and rear wall of our listening room and their overall impact on our sound stage.

How to make suspended floor listening room work.

Carpeting is an effective sound absorber and if you don t want to cover the hardwood with a large area rug the strategic placement of smaller rugs around the room can work just as well. Suspended hollow or timber floors also have a tendency to creak as the nails work loose over time. All you need to know. That we don t need.

Use the same size lumber as your existing joists set them in place offset so they can be screwed in place using architectural adhesive on each cut end. If the room you have chosen has windows cover them with thick blinds or better yet lined curtains to increase the sound absorption. Constructing a floor installing insulation and laying 18mm chip board tongue and groove any questions fire away i always answer music by joakim karud dreams. Depending on the length of the span you can do up to four runs of solid bridgers and that will make a dramatic improvement to a formerly braceless floor.

Then put three screws into each end. One of the problems of frame construction is that bass energy from inside the listening room puts the wooden frame and drywall structure into motion a bass impact for example makes the wall move. This will help to absorb the sound. The easiest way to do this is to divide the room into two thirds then position your speakers on the line shared by the 1st and 2nd third of the room and another speaker on the line shared by the 2nd and 3rd third of the room.

The floor can be formed in various ways using timber joists precast concrete panels block and beam system or cast in situ with reinforced concrete. We will also discuss the electrical requirements for our system so that we are not introducing more noise into the room.