Serge Auckland wrote:

What you're trying to achieve is a short reverberation time which means plenty
of
soft furnishings, carpeted floor and so on.

Well it's a combination of reducing the reverberant field's *intensity* as well
as the reverberation time.

You don't want to 'overdamp' a room though, it won't sound natural. The ear
adaps naturally to dealing with a modest reverberant field.

Graham