Soft left wall (absorption) and hard right wall (diffusion)

[coeuslee]

Hello all!

My room has a window on the left hand wall which I will be having absorption on the left side with thick curtains and some absorption panels. However, to prevent the room sounding too dead, I planned to put diffusors on the right wall.

I couldn't get my head around whether having absorption on left wall and diffusion on right wall with throw the imaging out of balance. Having read about this elsewhere, it seems to be fine.

http://www.decware.com/p1324.htm


http://www.decware.c...room/myroom.htm


Any thoughts?

 

[tomlinmgt]

It's generally recommended to mimic the acoustic response from opposing boundary layers otherwise you'll likely experience some image shift. It's hard to say how severe the perceived image shift might be without knowing exactly what type of devices you're planning on using.