Acoustic Panel Placement Behind Speakers

Before we focus on the acoustic panels and where to place them we need to figure a few things out.

Acoustic panel placement behind speakers.

Broadband bass traps would be better. What purpose would placing the panels behind the speakers serve. These are mounted at ear and or speaker height and positioned along the wall to capture the early reflections from the loudspeakers. Let s rock and roll.

I have a small room and i have acoustic panels at the early reflection points on the rear wall ceiling and no side walls to treat i have a heavy rug on the floor. In order to decide where to position your panels you need to find your monitoring or mixing position this is your listening position. Placing a couple of 3 thick acoustic panels behind the loudspeakers on the front wall will help eliminate comb filtering caused by omnidirectional low. So what you need to buy are bass traps and these are big acoustic panels you can actually see them behind me.

Optimization and fine tuning by acoustic measurements. Acoustic panel placement the mirror trick. When you make more panels assuming they are needed finish covering the front wall behind the main speakers and then add more to side and rear walls again around ear level until the decay time of the room is around 35 to 5 seconds for each frequency band. My goal is to mount the center channel behind my screen by changing to a spandex screen and also mount the l r speakers flush with the drywall behind some paneling with black speaker cloth.

Find the optimal distance of the speakers from the front and rear wall. It s time to have some music at last. The effectiveness of absorption behind your speakers also depends on speaker directivity. Apply acoustic panel or absorbing membranes.

So in this example in which you have 1 front firing speaker two front stereo speakers left and right two speakers behind the listener also left and right and two. At very close distances 4 inch thick absorptive acoustic panels behind the speakers may help tame the cancellation notch. They re typically two feet by four feet and you stick them in the corners of your room and you start by treating the corners behind your speakers so in the front of the room no pun intended and then you move to the back. Right now i have my l r speakers mounted on the sides of my projection screen and my center channel below the screen.

As speaker wall distance increases treatment becomes less practical. But i ve also noticed placement of panels behind the main speakers in a dedicated 2 channel listening room. General guidelines for acoustic panel placement. Most recommend experimenting by setting this position approximately 35 to 40 into the room.

Deciding on which acoustical panel to purchase is enough of an issue to begin with now you have to find the correct place.