I don't have a dedicated music room so I have to make do with my sala. I get good sound with my setup but would like to optimize the room to push for what's possible.
1. What effect would a carpet have?
2. Would putting some damping material on the ceiling help?
3. I have vertical plastic blinds on 2 big windows, will changing these to curtains help?
4. On stand alone diffuser panels, I asked these questions (to solidtubes)on another thread. I'm thinking of trying them out but their science eludes me.
a) What if speakers don't have backwards firing ports, won't that render the panels placed behind them useless? (Added: How will the panels prevent the reflections happening in front of the speakers when they are placed behind the speaker?).
b) The sound coming from the drivers reach the ears first before the reflected sound right? I think you mentioned earlier that our brain will register only the first sound it hears and ignore the ones that closely follow (the reflections) so why the need to get rid of the reflections?