Acoustic panels for garden room

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I’ve got a new 5x3m garden room being built for an office/listening room and wonder if it’s worth adding some acoustic panels considering 4m of glass on one side of the room.

The system is Naim Atom and Kef LS50s with REL sub.

Anyone got any experience with this?

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Many thanks, I’ll have a look.

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thebraketester said:

For what purpose? I would start with nothing and see what it sounds like. If you've got a hard floor a rug is a good idea.

A bare room is going to sound echoey and awful. A rug is a good idea for the floor but that still leaves the walls and 4x2m of glass on one side. I figure if I’m going to spend a shed load on a posh shed, it might as well sound good too.

Plus, I really like some of the woodblock art acoustic panels on Etsy.

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Lucid_AV said:

The Etsy wood block panels look nice, but you should be aware that these quadratic skyline diffusers can be tuned to work at specific frequencies. The shallower the depth of the blocks then the higher the frequencies they diffuse, but that also means they don't work that well at lower frequencies that might be where you have more of an issue. The answer here is to have someone come in with a calibrated mic and the right software to measure the room response.

Room treatment gear relies on a mix of three techniques: diffusion, absorption, and dealing with standing waves which is mostly about reducing bass problems.

Thanks Lucid, I’ll look into this once the build is complete and the furniture is in.