Adding diffusers on the front wall

I've got a few diffusers on the rear wall so I am covered there (I think). I was thinking about adding diffusers like this www.overtoneacoustics.com/SoundDiffuser to my front wall and conveniently my listening position is about 1.5 away from the front wall. Hmm...

Diffusers are absolutely BRILLIANT on your ceiling. They can extend your apparent ceiling height by 75%. Instead of having pads or bass traps over your head in your current set-up, replacing them with one big diffusor would do wonders.

Awesome I will give him a buzz and see if I can get some advice!

I predict the 2 things that are making u/ur pal unhappy are the drywall, and the carpet, cover the dry wall with wood, and put hardwood on the floor with some throw rugs, I would NOT put a diffusor on ur front wall, multiple repeats of smaller/deeper diffusers are more effective than a large single, but u need appropriate inverses to avoid lobing, how tall are ur ceilings? Ceilings are tricky, U need diffusion to be built quite deep for them to reach down low, u'd likely be better off with absorption overhead, and wood flooring/small throw rugs, no ceiling(100%absorbed, or REALLY TALL), is the best ceiling imo=air

Ur room takes on the character of the materials it's built with, primarily on its surfaces, but not totally,.. think about a concrete slab vs wood timbre floor, they sound quite diff no matter how they're finished on top.

good luck, u can also be confident that after u officially have ur bass problems resolved, if it sounds good to u?... It is good..

There is something about drywall that does make things weird. When I moved to Nashville the house we are in was built in 1925, so it's a plaster over the little wood strips. When I put my rig in up here things sounded immediately better, it felt like the sound was breathing instead of being trapped in the room if that makes any sense. I used FAR less absorption/diffusion here, just on the reflection points and a cloud very similar to yours overhead (even the same color!) I haven't put a hardwood section down in there yet, and there is still carpet, but there is hardwood under that. Something about the way the old houses sound, just different, so I agree that your room will sound like what materials are in it, especially smaller rooms.

Also, the way you've got those traps straddled across the corners, if you ever want to improve that and for a small price go and buy that Roxul Safe n Sound and cut triangles and stack them from the floor to the ceiling, you'll have to build a little frame to hold them in, but do that and then cover it with fabric, it will absorb anything that enters that corner, and I got that idea from Tony, so he knows about this type of thing.

Jerome