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The trade off between asthetics and function is tricky, especially when you get down to bass. I’ve been trying to work out how to get some treatment into my ‘cinema room’ (lounge) but the walls are screen/wallpaper/shelves/bay window so it’s basically impossible unless I start chucking soffit traps around the edge of the floor, which is going to look weird at best. I would do a ceiling cloud but that will wreck the cool Victorian coffering.
Dramatic_Hammer
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I had a couple of victorian screens hanging around from a job years ago. They have worked very well at damping down the reverb in my room by having them behind the speakers. They are easy enough to make and you can cover them with almost any kind of material. Worth considering as a flexible 'decorative' solution to reverb either on the front or back wall.
It's worth noting that although Dirac has a time domain element it's becoming accepted by dsp tweakers that eq'ing higher frequencies is counter productive. Added to the problem of physically curing standing bass waves the design of your room and position of the speakers still counts for a lot.
For example your speaker in the position it's photographed in would theoretically be boosted by 6db in the bass range through wall proximity. 6db being 4 times the power. Interesting if you look at the size of a Helmholtz resonator that would be required to dampen a 50hz bass peak.