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Curtain Room Divider for Our Home Theatre

  • September 23, 2024
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Hi everyone.  In our basement we have our OLED, Arc, two SW and two Era 300s. We really love the sound.  We do have an issue with the room being a bit of a strange shape, so we thought about putting in a divider to wall off the theatre portion of the room.

 

We would really like to use a fabric divider on a track that we can open and close, however the concern is this might not work well since the Arc and the 300s depend on reflecting sound.  Would they both still work effectively or would any type of fabric divider damping the reflecting sound too much? Would Truplay take care of this issue? Is there a different alternative we should be looking at?

 

Thank you!
 

Charles

 

P.S.  This is the curtain we are considering: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CL43RX1M/ref=twister_B0CPY1XRT5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

 

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  • nik9669a
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  • September 23, 2024

If you “really love the sound” why do you think you need the curtain? 
For Atmos, side and height signals are, I think, more relevant than rear wall reflections. 
You’ve said nothing about room size or shape, speaker placement. Even with this information I suspect any suggestions are likely to be something of a guess. 

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  • charlesbell74
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  • September 23, 2024

If you “really love the sound” why do you think you need the curtain? 
For Atmos, side and height signals are, I think, more relevant than rear wall reflections. 
You’ve said nothing about room size or shape, speaker placement. Even with this information I suspect any suggestions are likely to be something of a guess. 

 

 

Hi.  Happy to provide some more details.  Our room is 15X15 however the way it is laid out (pillar in the middle) we are forced to have the TV in the corner. Currently the sound works since we are able to bounce everything off the walls, however we are in the process of painting a portion of the room black to nearly eliminate light reflection in the the home theatre portion while keeping the rest very light.

Painting the entire room black isn’t an option, so that’s why we thought a black room divider would work well and give us the visual separation. 

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  • September 23, 2024

Curtains are not going to reflect sound well, they absorb or dampen it.  You could try and google for a curtain that reflects well, but the results are all going to be about sound proofing .  If the curtain is on the front or back wall, then not an issue.  If it’s the sides, then it will be an issue. Trueplay will try to make adjustments, but it will likely be lacking.

 

As far as finding better materials for a temporary walls, you’re going to have issues with most options.  Temporary walls tend to be light weight and thus less dense.  Dense materials are you want for better sound reflection.  Maybe you could find something that is dense but runs on tracks/wheels to carry the weight.  That’s surely going to raise costs, and quite possible ruin the aesthetics of the space.

 

https://www.payette.com/research-innovation/the-materiality-of-sound-absorption/#:~:text=Materials%20which%20have%20higher%20densities,sound%20frequencies%20than%20thinner%20materials.

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  • charlesbell74
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  • September 23, 2024

Curtains are not going to reflect sound well, they absorb or dampen it.  You could try and google for a curtain that reflects well, but the results are all going to be about sound proofing .  If the curtain is on the front or back wall, then not an issue.  If it’s the sides, then it will be an issue. Trueplay will try to make adjustments, but it will likely be lacking.

 

As far as finding better materials for a temporary walls, you’re going to have issues with most options.  Temporary walls tend to be light weight and thus less dense.  Dense materials are you want for better sound reflection.  Maybe you could find something that is dense but runs on tracks/wheels to carry the weight.  That’s surely going to raise costs, and quite possible ruin the aesthetics of the space.

 

https://www.payette.com/research-innovation/the-materiality-of-sound-absorption/#:~:text=Materials%20which%20have%20higher%20densities,sound%20frequencies%20than%20thinner%20materials.

Thank you!  It looks like what you came back with is what were were expecting. I will saw that darkening the walls near the TV has helped out quite a bit, so we may have to go with just that in the end.

 

Charles

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