Yikes this thread has ballooned.
Might take me awhile to chug through it, but a great documented adventure on building a HT room!

We stopped short of adding too much sound control material. After all, i wanted a sound controlled area, not a sound proof one. If i ever had a heart attack down there after ingesting all the buttery popcorn, i would like someone to hear my squeaks for help.

I figure the STC of our room is between 40-45 (if i recall correctly), with a standard room (2x4 walls and one drywall layer) being under 35.
The dB drops by 30 outside the room just by closing the french doors and only the bass is easily distinguishable in the rest of the house (hard to control bass energy when the living room is ony 16 inches above the media room).

Ironically with all the science in this house, i still have yet to do any frequency sweeps of the room.
But i still need a laptop to start, or i'll have to wheel my desktop comp down the hall....yeeesh.


Last edited by chesseroo; 07/22/15 03:45 PM.
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