Serge Auckland wrote:

"Eeyore" wrote
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.

Indeed. Too short a RT and the room sounds dead. However, in my view what
you don't absorb should be diffused, so I mix a certain amount of absorbtion
with diffusion. In a domestic setting, a bookcase with different size books,
and with several gaps which could have small ornaments (standing on felt so
they don't rattle) makes an acceptable diffuser. A slatted ceiling can be
very effective as both a diffuser and absorber, and look attractive if well
done.

Sounds good to me.

Graham