Can you use a thick heavy curtain for a home theater room?

- If I wanted to divide my home theater room from another room without drywall, could I use a thick heavy curtain?

Can you use a thick heavy curtain for a home theater room?theater

You could, but it won't do much in terms of cutting down the noise from the Home Theater system. Curtains, even heavy ones, are limited bandwidth absorbers. In other words, they absorb sounds over a very limited range of frequencies. A dividing wall, particularly a wall that is properly constructed to stop noise, is far more effective.

There is one other effect that may happen. By treating one side of the room, you will throw the tonal balance way off (typically, only the front wall of a theater should be fully covered with acoustic absorption). Things may seem to be shifted to one side if the wall is a side wall. Also, you may dull the sound by putting too much absorption on a side or back wall. Your surrounds may also not work correctly if they are dipoles which depend on sound bouncing off the walls to create an immersive rear channel surround effect.

Can you use a thick heavy curtain for a home theater room?london theatre opera theater

yes, absolutely.

if you are a serious about acoustic, you should read more about sound dampening. don't over dampend your room, else the sould will be lifeless.