Hi all,

I have just bought a new house and its a pretty big reno. Anyway one room lends its self perfectly to being turned into a Home theatre.

Its about 4 meters wide and 5.5 meters long. and has only two small high windows that can be blocked out easily.

My question at this stage relates to the ceiling which is currentlty sloping from left to right across the room from a height of 2.6 meters to 2.9 meters It also has exposed 250 mm beams.

My first thought was to frame in a new ceiling at 2.4 high. Then I was reading how irregular shaped rooms could be better acoustically.

So I see three options.

1.box in a flat ceiling at 2.4 meters high

2. leave it as is

3. stick with the raking ceiling however lose the beams under plaster board.

Any advice much appreciated.

Quigs

From your description there is nothing wrong with your room - symmetry is not required and the higher ceiling is more desirable than putting in a new ceiling, from an acoustics point of view. I wouldn't be concerned and would try to retain it. All you would do is make the room smaller and create more parallel surfaces, and this is a backward step IMHO.

I'd be more concerned about the polar response of the speakers and directivity control. This one of the critical aspects of the most important part of the audio system - speakers and the room and their interaction.

I agree with Paul.

Give it a shot as is and if all sounds fine you are set.

You can always mod it later if unhappy.

But irregular rooms and anthing that breaks up reflections should be good in therory at least.

Exposed beams may actually help you disperse sound.

Leave it as is to start, see how you go.

Agreed. Avoiding parallel surfaces is a good thing.

Thanks for the input guys. I'm sure to be back asking more questions before too long.

Quigs