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Old 10-03-2018, 11:29 PM
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Yeah, I agree that looks better. Congrats! Be careful and check the size of the traps, I took the default and they are pretty big. If I were to do it over, I'd get a custom size and have it match up better with the moulding I have around my room. i.e. I'd have it come right up to the moulding, instead of being 4 inches taller, cuz it looks a little sloppy. Anyway, just be aware they are bigger than you think when you get them into your room!

Some people actually choose to get them all the way to the ceiling, but I think that would only look good in a fairly large room or behind very large speakers.
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Old 10-04-2018, 06:41 AM
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Yeah, I agree that looks better. Congrats! Be careful and check the size of the traps, I took the default and they are pretty big. If I were to do it over, I'd get a custom size and have it match up better with the moulding I have around my room. i.e. I'd have it come right up to the moulding, instead of being 4 inches taller, cuz it looks a little sloppy. Anyway, just be aware they are bigger than you think when you get them into your room!

Some people actually choose to get them all the way to the ceiling, but I think that would only look good in a fairly large room or behind very large speakers.
Thanks, I'm deciding in the next few days everything else I will get to complete the treatments. I played around with covering the monitor with another 23-inch inch square absorber panel last night. It seemed to improve things a bit, I'm going to order a 6th matching panel and leave it in front of the monitor when listening. It will easily slide sideways under the desk when I'm using the computer. My plan with the bass traps is to store them in the closet when I'm not listening. I even have an idea on the left side to open the closet door and keep that trap permanently in that closet it might widen the room a bit because the right side currently has a lot more space than the left. I just have to decide if I want to go with tri traps or with soffit traps and how high to go. My living room has 9-foot ceilings and I have a single 4 foot soffit trap on each front corner and they actually work great by themselves. So the option would be either 48inch I could go up to 70 or so, which would require a slightly smaller custom height for the one of the traps on each side of the stack. This is the closet I may put the left traps in, I'm not sure how this would sound. 20181003_201955.jpeg
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Old 10-04-2018, 01:36 PM
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I had a difficult job searching for brilliant white corner traps, no other colour would have satisfied the decor or WAF. They do work very well, voices in the room sound very natural too which was a unexpected bonus. IMG_2561.jpg
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Old 10-04-2018, 01:49 PM
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Congratulations, mcpaf76. Having GIK'd two rooms here, I've found the traps to significantly improve the listening experience (and my wife agrees, though I've caught her giving them the side-eye more than once when she thought I wasn't looking ).

I suspect you'll find that expanding the height of the corner traps will improve what you hear to a not insignificant degree, particularly in terms of focus, definition. and the "teasing out" of previously-masked detail, not least in bass attack and decay.

Enjoy the ride.
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Old 10-04-2018, 05:31 PM
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Congratulations, mcpaf76. Having GIK'd two rooms here, I've found the traps to significantly improve the listening experience (and my wife agrees, though I've caught her giving them the side-eye more than once when she thought I wasn't looking ).

I suspect you'll find that expanding the height of the corner traps will improve what you hear to a not insignificant degree, particularly in terms of focus, definition. and the "teasing out" of previously-masked detail, not least in bass attack and decay.

Enjoy the ride.
Thanks, and I definitely agree, additional height would help, but for now going to stay with a single soffit in each front corner of each room. Maybe revisit it later. Just ordered 2 for this room and one additional panel matching the other 5 for the monitor. It will go where this is now. 20181004_170632.jpeg
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Old 10-12-2018, 09:25 PM
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Got my bass traps tonight. They look decent, especially considering one is going to stay hidden in closet and the other one can be if needed. First listen the improvement was surprising. The speakers transparency, clarity, and holography increased tremendously. I am actually surprised how much it improved things. Tommorow I am getting the 6th matching panel for the front of the monitor. I don't expect the sound to change much because I'm using a comparable temporary one. Here's some photos of the new traps. I'm also covering the top of the one visible in the room with a piece of grey glass and putting something decorative on top to make it look less obtrusive. 20181012_194007.jpeg20181012_194032.jpeg
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They make square ones? I didn't know that. Mine are triangle. Triangle is best for me anyway
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Old 10-13-2018, 01:02 AM
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They make square ones? I didn't know that. Mine are triangle. Triangle is best for me anyway


Yeah the triangle ones are their Tri traps. These are the soffit traps. These are supposed to be their most effective trap but harder to integrate visually. These absorb slightly lower frequencies. I almost went with Tris but decided on these. I was going to go with a stack of a 48 plus a 24 inch Tri trap. They said a single 48 inch soffit would be more affective so I took their word for it. I have 2 of these in my living room also. In both cases difference was huge. They actually surpassed any gain I’ve ever gotten from any individual cable or isolation tweak by far.
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