Acoustics
Concept for good sounding rooms
To achieve highest quality level of sound reproduction, room acoustics must meet certain criteria.
The room is treated, to achieve those desired acoustic properties, using a combination of absorption, reflective surfaces and diffusion.
Acoustic treatment can be built into walls and surfaces, or modular acoustic modules mounted on walls. Visual appearance can be tailored to suit different interior styles.
The result is predictable, and all rooms can be fixed.
This Acoustics Service is a guide to do this in your room. You get to see what it takes to fix it. And help to get it built and implemented.
What is achieved
Better sound
If the room had no treatment and mostly bare walls, little furniture, there will be a huge and dramatic difference. For rooms that sort of works already, the improvement will still be large.
When the acoustic signature of the listening room is removed, you are left with the room and reverb from the recording. Different albums and music will sound different.
Tonality improves when decay is linear across the frequency range, the original timbre of instruments can now be heard.
Clarity is improved when masking reverb from the room is removed.
Removal of early reflections gives a presentation with precise imaging and a distinct, realistic character to the sound.
Everything improves, perhaps one exception; any faults in the sound system will now reveal itself, when masking from room contributions disappear.
Pleasant to be in the room
The comforting atmosphere is immediately noticed when you enter the room. Normal conversation, watching the news, everything with sound benefits from nice acoustics.
Who is this for
Anyone who has a small room - small means all normal rooms in a house - and reproduce sound in there - music, movies, other media content with sound. For pure entertainment, or professional.
Requirements will be very different for a multi-purpose living room, compared to a dedicated sound studio. But they share the same acoustic challenges, and the same methods can be applied to achieve the best possible sound, inside the limits of what is reasonable to do from a practical perspective.
Room Acoustics Project
Guiding you through your room acoustic treatment project
We fix your room.
We have a dialog about your room and discuss solutions.
Acoustic measurements are not necessary, but recommended at later stages in the build process.
Price and ordering
References
Articles on acoustics and rooms
