How to Acoustically Treat an Awkwardly Shaped Room for the Best Sound Setup

Room acoustics can make or break your listening experience. When dealing with odd-shaped spaces, acoustically treating the room becomes a challenge. For one Reddit user, adapting DIY solutions to their uniquely shaped room sparked a lively discussion.

Summary

  • Consider using a room acoustics meter app for an objective analysis.
  • Experiment with furniture placement to enhance sound transmission.
  • Find a setup that allows for optimal listening from various sources within the room.

JazzCompose

If you want to be analytic, there is a very good Android app “Room Acoustics Meter” you can use to objectively analyze a room. When you buy the needed plugins, the app costs about $16 USD. You may want a reverb time of about 0.5 seconds and a flat frequency response, but what really matters is that the music sounds good to you. You can experiment with rugs on the floor and thick blankets on walls to find a good sound and then install your solution.

reedzkee

I’d put the desk on the left wall and the bed on the right side. Sound transmission going along the long way, not the short way. In this setup, it would be a great room for sound, and the bed would double as sound treatment. Angled, sloped walls are better than straight ones for sound.

soundspotter

The problem with your config above is that you’ll need to set up your stereo for either desk usage or bed usage, but there is no way to set up for good listening from both sources. However, if you set up both your bed and desk so they both faced SE in this diagram, you could have your cake and eat it too. For example, I’d face the desk towards the SW, but at least 2 feet from the wall, then spread the speakers out at least 7-8 feet. And then if you set up your bed to run on the same axis as your desk (i.e., facing SE in the photo when lying down) then you would have both the speakers hit your ears from a pretty good position. You could set a compromise distance between the speakers to give decent but not perfect sound for both the desk and bed (or you could favoritize your desk if you listen more from the desk than bed).

Icy_Psychology_3453

Put a lot of pillows on your bed. Put a large upholstered chair in the room. Where are the speakers?