[tysonschneider]

Has anyone tried putting black shag carpet on the theater ceiling?

My brother in law will be planning his front projection home theater in the near future. First we thought of painting the ceiling. Then we started wondering if anyone had put black shag carpet on the ceiling to deaden the sound. Perhaps it would look silly except for during the darkness of a movie. I imagine that it would really deaden the sound.

[RobertR]

The AVSForum Room Treatments master thread recommends against treating the ceiling for sound.

[Joseph DeMartino]

No one has put shag carpet on anything since the 1970s. There's a reason for this.

Joe

[TampaTom]

sounds like fun and would probably kill a lot of resonance... but sounds like bitch to install.

[chuckg]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joseph DeMartino

No one has put shag carpet on anything since the 1970s. There's a reason for this.

Joe

ROTFLMAO!!!


In one of the dorms rooms I inhabited during the early 80s, we carpeted everything. Walls, floor, and ceiling. It was really really quiet in there.

One little thing, though. You actually don't want a totally acoustically dead room. Some of the suround feel and "staginess" comes from reflections from walls, floor, and ceiling. This is why the AVS forum mentioned does not recommend deadening the ceiling. You want the floor fairly dead, and the lower 1/3 of the walls fairly dead, but the rest fairly live.

[tysonschneider]

I did not know that AVSforum specifically suggested not to do this!
I guess we will not put carpet on the ceiling then.
Thank you!
That would have been a lot of wasted effort had we done so.