Sound isolating door

[W9TR]

Some great ideas here!

One thing I’d add is that you should balance your door choice with the rest of the room construction.

For example If you have built a ‘room within a room’ with isolated walls and hvac, then you should spring for a quality door as it will likely be the biggest source of transmission.

If you use normal construction; even double drywall, green glue, and clips then you don’t need a studio quality door because you’ll get sound transmission from the walls and ceiling anyway.

[Levitator]

Originally Posted by W9TR

Some great ideas here!

One thing I’d add is that you should balance your door choice with the rest of the room construction.

For example If you have built a ‘room within a room’ with isolated walls and hvac, then you should spring for a quality door as it will likely be the biggest source of transmission.

If you use normal construction; even double drywall, green glue, and clips then you don’t need a studio quality door because you’ll get sound transmission from the walls and ceiling anyway.

Good point Tom - I’m going through this exercise now and everything should be relative otherwise you’ll end up creating another set of problems or spending unnecessarily...

[W9TR]

Definitely - you’ve got to leave enough in the budget for a fiber optic star ceiling.