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What is acoustic treatment? |
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A lot of people think that acoustic treatment is “sound proofing” a room so you can’t hear what’s going on outside. This is just one aspect of acoustic treatment. The other is providing balance to the frequency spectrum of the room to ensure the sound is being reproduced exactly as it was intended to be heard. By placing custom built acoustic baffles, diffusers and bass traps into a room, a $5000 sound system can sound like a million dollars. Most people are stunned by the difference that the acoustic treatment has on their media room or listening space and agree that spending as little as $3000 on the room was a fantastic investment. |
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How does acoustic treatment work? |
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Sound emanates from your speakers and strikes your ears, but also continues past your ears and bounces off the surfaces of your walls, floor and ceiling. This reflected sound distorts and exaggerates the soundscape. This can make a room sound boomy or muddy and difficult to clearly hear the dialogue in a movie or vocals in a musical performance. With the addition of our custom made acoustic baffles on your walls and ceiling, these adverse affects can be virtually eliminated. The dialogue will be crisp and clear which will sound balanced with the music and sound effects in the feature film or high definition sound source. With our custom built Bass Traps added to the room, the bass response of your system will tighten and seem much more powerful and focused. This doesn't mean that your system is louder, it's now more even and pleasing to your ears. Your front and rear speakers will also express positional detail like you’ve never heard before. When watching a helicopter fly over your head within the film, you can now feel it move through the room, the way that the sound designer of the film intended it to be heard. |
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Every listening room can need vastly differing treatment solutions, so we analyise the room in question using computer modeling technology and sound sampling devices to determine which custom built acoustic solutions are required to rectify the problem frequencies. By playing a series of sounds through your speakers into the room, we record the "response time" of the room across the frequency spectrum with reference to both time and amplitude. Based on these results, we calculate what needs to be removed or added to the room. We custom build devices to absorb frequencies (absorbers), scatter the sound (diffusers) and pull low frequencies out of the room (bass traps). |
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What do acoustic treatment products look like? |
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All of our acoustic treatment products are designed to blend in with your decor. Like this photo on the left, we can build baffles and diffusors in almost any colour. This photo is of an edit suite used to mix music and the red box wall-mounted behind the speakers is a low midrange absorber High to High Midrange Absorbers are usually 1800 x 600 x 90mm Low midrange absorbers are usually 1800 x 900 x 160mm Diffusers can often be a well placed bookshelf Bass traps are a little more complex to build, but they can be built into the walls or ceiling appearing flush with the plasterboard. |
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CONNECT MULTIMEDIA have the ability to work within large and small budgets. Acoustic treatment of a room starts for around $3000 including computer analysis of the room and optimisation of your existing amplifier and speakers. We can also ensure your system is installed correctly and suggest how to get the best possible sound out of your system. Click here to contact us regarding an obligation free quote. [Element]6[/Element] |