Project Overview: Telecom Conference Room Acoustic Treatment Why Telecom Rooms Need Sub-1-Second RT60 Healthcare conference rooms with telecom equipment have a stricter acoustic target than most meeting spaces. Ceiling- and table-mounted microphones pick up the room’s reverberant field along with the speaker’s voice, and above 1 second RT60 the reflections smear into the direct signal […]
Tag Archives: Product – Acoustic Panel
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Feb
Feb
Project Overview: Conference Room Acoustics with Custom Panels Why Office Conference Rooms Are the Worst Acoustic Offenders Of every acoustic problem we get called into on a weekly basis, conference room reverberation tops the list. The reasons are structural: conference rooms are bigger than the average office, they’re built around hard reflective finishes (drywall, glass, […]
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Feb
Feb
Project Overview: Clubhouse Echo Acoustic Treatment Why Clubhouses Have Persistent Echo Problems Clubhouses are one of the most common acoustic clients we work with, and the reason is structural. The standard clubhouse footprint pairs high tapered ceilings (great for visual openness) with reflective walls and hard floors (great for cleaning and durability). Together those choices […]
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Jan
Jan
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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Dec
Dec
Project Overview: Creative Agency Office Acoustic Ceiling Panels Why Open-Plan Creative Offices Are Loud Creative agencies and digital media offices are usually built around the same finish palette. Polished concrete floors, exposed-deck ceilings, glass conference rooms, and minimal soft material on the walls. The aesthetic is intentional and reads as modern, but every one of […]
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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. […]
Case Studies
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 […]
Case Studies
Multi-Zone Office Soundproofing: Machine Shop, Open Office, and Auditorium in One Buildout
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Sep
Sep
Project Overview: Multi-Zone Office Soundproofing Why Warehouse-to-Office Conversions Stack Acoustic Problems Warehouses are built for the opposite acoustic profile than offices. Tall ceilings, exposed structure, polished concrete floors, minimal interior walls, and zero soft material on any surface. Every one of those attributes reflects sound rather than absorbing it. The volume that makes a warehouse […]
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Jun
Jun
Project Overview: Cafeteria Soundproofing Why School Cafeterias Have Severe Acoustic Problems School cafeterias are designed for cleanability first. Tile floors, sealed walls, hard ceilings, stainless serving lines, and minimal soft material on any surface make a cafeteria the easiest building type to mop and the hardest to control acoustically. Every one of those finish choices […]
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Jun
Jun
Project Overview: Tampa Open Office Sound Panel Install Why Open Offices Need Sound Panels for Conference Calls Open offices used to be measured by speech privacy and noise distraction between desks. Hybrid work changed the test. The new failure mode is the conference call. When a remote participant joins a meeting and hears every keyboard, […]