New Family Room Acoustics

[Flint]

This past weekend I finally installed some acoustic absorbers on the wall under my TV which is behind my loudspeakers.

For many years I had used three 2 x 2 foot foam wedge sheets just stuffed into place in that area, and while they functioned fine, they would slip around and were rarely properly aligned to look good.


For Christmas I bought myself a new TV and installed it a few weeks ago. The process got me messing around with that area, the cables and components and stuff, so I decided to finally put up something more permanent on that wall in that area.



After cleaning out the area, I put up wood strips to mount polyester felt onto, then put up the felt panels.



The results are slightly better acoustics, but significantly better aesthetics. I am inclined to put a taller strip of similar polyester felt centered on the TV, like 2ft tall and covering the same exposed area at the lower strip.

What do you think? Should I add that strip?

 

[Haywood]

I'm not sure how that would look. The panels you have up there are pretty nice looking. If you do the black, I would consider running it all the way to the ceiling. Or maybe not. What I'm getting at is an isolated stripe across the wall might look weird.

 

[heeman]

Not sure how that would look?

If it's not expensive, you could try it, if you don't like it, take it down.

 

[Flint]

Something like this, but the material would be the same gray color as the lower strip:

 

[heeman]

That would work for my tastes, which many times isn't all that popular......