Project Overview: Yeoman’s Cask & Lion Ceiling Panels Why British Pubs Are Acoustically Loud British pubs and gastropubs are built around materials that look great and sound terrible. Exposed brick, dark wood paneling, tile floors, tin ceilings, and large flat windows are the visual language of the category. Every one of those finishes reflects sound […]
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Oct
Oct
Project Overview: Live Music Restaurant Acoustic Treatment Why Restaurants With Live Music Have a Double Acoustic Problem A standard restaurant has one acoustic problem to solve. Diner-generated noise (conversation, glassware, kitchen sounds) needs to be controlled enough that guests can hold a table conversation without raising voices. That single problem is hard but well understood. […]
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Restaurant Speech Intelligibility: Cutting Reverberation Time from 1.6 to Under 1 Second
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Oct
Oct
Project Overview: Restaurant Reverberation Reduction Why Hard Surfaces Kill Restaurant Speech Intelligibility Speech intelligibility is the percentage of spoken words a listener can correctly identify in a given environment. It is not loudness. A room can be quiet and still have terrible speech intelligibility if the reverberation tail blurs each word into the start of […]
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Jun
Jun
Project Overview: Restaurant Acoustic Art Panel Install The Tropical Smoothie Cafe location had the same acoustic problem most quick-service restaurants run into within a year of opening. Hard tile floors, painted drywall, and a metal-and-glass storefront left the dining room with nowhere for sound to settle. During lunch peak, the room turned into a wash […]
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Jan
Jan
While many restaurateurs struggle with acoustic issues, some are more critical than others. Take for instance, Tampa’s downtown Channelside restaurant Cena. A high-end Italian Cafe focused on upscale Mediterranean cuisine, the restaurant was a perfect storm of underlying acoustical concerns. The walls were painted gypsum with a significant square footage of windows. Meanwhile the tall […]
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