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Room Treatment for Corners - Recommendations?

Do folks have any recommendations for ceiling corner room treatments? I had read some good reviews of such triangle-like treatments from Eight Nerve, but the company appears to be out of business now.

I may also want to try some other treatmetns too, but corners are my priority just now. I'm improvising some pilates tubular exercise type thingies in on the floor in the corners behind the speakers currently, but am guessing I may get better results from proper tube traps, although they can get pricey and I'd prefer to focus on more cost effective solutions.

Any ceiling-corner solutions out there?
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kr4
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"I don't see them on their website any longer, but Real Traps used to sell artificial plants where the wicker basket was filled with absorption material. Combined with any benefit the branches and leaves might provide it seems to be a reasonably good solution that looks good in a room."

Funny. The acoustical advantages of these are due to the acoustical materials in the wicker basket. The "plant" is camouflage.
clio09
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The acoustical advantages of these are due to the acoustical materials in the wicker basket. The "plant" is camouflage.

Given the previous comments I thought I'd try to craft an answer that stated the obvious reason why they work, but also appealed to those who feel plants can be diffusers.

I personally use the traditional Real Traps panels and Eighth Nerve products. I've tried plants but they did nothing for the sound that I could discern. My cat enjoyed tearing into them though.
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kr4
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I guess your well-crafted post was too subtle for me. ;-)

Kal
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grannyring
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Well I "feel" they diffuse as, well, they do. I pulled the 8 foot trees out from behind my Soundlab speakers to a/b vs. them in place and they do indeed work!

Maybe placement behind Soundlab speakers is the only way they work, but they do work in this application based on direct testing.

They only cost me $40 each, so the price was also right.
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kr4
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1. 8' trees are not typical house plants.
2. Putting anything behind dipole speakers will affect the sound, much as it would if put in front of a monopole speaker.

So, I have no argument with your observations but they are not universal or typical.

Kal
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