Standalone Audio Room

[Grateful]

Hi,

I’m getting ready to design a custom home and want to build a separate structure for audio. I’m thinking something like 800 square feet with a 12’ ceiling. Is there a golden rule calculator, so I can nail the best dimensions?

About 20 years ago, I had Rives Audio design my current room. Who are the best audio room design firms today?

Much thanks!

 

[Al M.]

Those sound like very nice dimensions!

Here is a calculator (room dimensions in meters):

Room sizes compliance with international standards and recommendations

It is explained in this article, which is a long read but in my view excellent:

https://digistar.cl/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=557

 

[Kofi Baffour]

Hi,

I’m getting ready to design a custom home and want to build a separate structure for audio. I’m thinking something like 800 square feet with a 12’ ceiling. Is there a golden rule calculator, so I can nail the best dimensions?

About 20 years ago, I had Rives Audio design my current room. Who are the best audio room design firms today?

Much thanks!

reach out to Warp Audio Academy. He does incredible work. His website - https://vespers.ca/work-with-me/?v=6848ae6f8e78

Also, ratio can be a Golden ratio, a Sepmeyer Ratio, a Louden Ratio or a Bolt Ratio

Golden - 1 : 1.6 : 2.6
Sepmeyer - 1 : 1.14 : 1.39
Louden - 1 : 1.4 : 1.9
Bolt - 1 : 1.26 : 1.59 and 1 : 1.50 : 2.50

But I'd say discuss with Vespers

 

[Young Skywalker]

I would recommend plugging room dimensions (for a rectanglar space) into this website: https://amcoustics.com/tools/amroc

You should look for well-spaced peaks for a given combination of length (x), width (y) and height (z).

I used this when deciding on room dimensions for my own dedicated listening room (650 cm x 480 cm x 300 cm). My listening position is at one third of the room length from the back wall. My speaker plane is one third of the room length from the front wall. Loudspeaker centres are one quarter of the room width from each side wall. This creates a near field listening triangle that is approximately 2.56 meters from ear to tweeter with tweeters approximately 2.4 meters centre to centre.

 

[Grateful]

Hi,

Thank each of you, very much, for your assistance!

Does anyone else have any advice and/or recommendations for the latest and greatest Rives Audio?

 

[DonH50]

In addition to Golden Ratio, prime or quasi-prime dimensions also work to reduce the impact of room modes. E.g. 1:3:7 or whatever. The main thing is to not have any dimension be a close factor or subfactor of any other.

If you are building a room, consider isolation to reduce sound leakage from and into the rest of the house. I use Kinetics IsoMax clips and used a minisplit for HVAC to avoid ducts into the rest of the house. (The ducts in the picture are existing and went to other rooms; no duct outlets or inlets in the media room to the rest of the house.) Construction notes pasted below. Isolating the media room is one of the best things I did IMO.

HTH - Don

 

[Grateful]

Hi Don,

Thank you, very much, Don!

I’m building a separate building (probably 60’ x 20’ x 12’). I’m thinking a 32.5’ x 20’ x 12’ listening room with the rest of the space to house music, extra gear, vinyl cleaning machines, etc. I’m going to have an HVAC and electrical panel solely for that building. I’m in South Texas, so it will be built on a concrete slab.

Thoughts, ideas, improvements?