How To Soundproof Your Home Entertainment Room

How can I soundproof my home entertainment room?

There are a number of ways that you can soundproof your home entertainment room. They range from the relatively inexpensive to the extraordinarily expensive. The best way to soundproof your room is to isolate it from the rest of the room, which essentially is building a box within a box. A lot of times, you'll see that in a studio setup where they need complete sound isolation; there will be a new room inside the original room. Most home theatres that we build don't go to that extent. We use sound treatment materials. We use carpeting, for example, special wall treatments, and different types of fabrics to help contain the sound. When you're doing sound treatment, you don't want to kill all the audio in the room; you don't want to over-treat the room so that it deadens the sound. Part of what makes an effective home theatre is to have a little bit of liveliness in the audio, and to do that, you need a little bit of reflection. The key is to get the reflection so that it makes it sound lifelike, as opposed to very numb and dead.