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Hi Stephane,

I think I am probably misunderstanding you when you say cover 80% of your wall surface. If you mean covering your entire wall surface with acoustic panels, you can save some money as you definitely would not want to do that. You would only want a couple of bass traps, often in the corners and a few anti-reflective acoustical panels in just the primary reflection points in the room. Some folks might even say, that they are only required for overly reflective rooms but I'm no expert at that level. I myself built some into my basement HT room as 3/4 walls are pretty empty with concrete behind them.

Good music/theater sound actually relies on natural reflection points. if you cover the entire room, the sound will sound (and I don't have the correct terms here but essentially,) flat and deadened.

If you are talking about soundproofing inside the walls or some other matter, please excuse me cutting into the conversation.

Hi Murph,

Sorry I should have explained myself better. If I purchase 6 panels of 2'x4'x2" I will be installing them on 3 of my 4 walls, which are the left, front and right wall. I don't have room on the back wall at this time. Also, I have already built 2 Corner Bass "super chunks" using stacked triangles of Roxul mineral wool wich I then made a frame of pine and put black transparent frabric on top. I'll post pictures in the gallery tonight.

I plan on installing 3 of the 6 panels and evaluating the impact, then adding one more panel at a time up to 6 if I feel it's required, but I might stop at 3 or 4 etc.. I'm trying to remove slap echo and some reverb that occurs in certain parts of the room and messes with soudstage / clarity. The only reason I'll be getting 6 panels is because they only sell them in packs of 6. I will also be adding a new EP500 sub and run a dual sub system to even out the bass response. I hope that with the addition of the EP500 and the acoustic panels I will have a much better sound experience.

My mistake.
I look forward to seeing your photos.

if you could move your Q's back futher. My room is not quite as big but I had it set up as a 7.1 I took the back speakers off the back wall and moved the Q's futher back I think it sounds better as a 5.1 my room is 12x24x9