TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2013 Any room that hosts crowds of gathering people is suspect for poor room acoustics.   As the crowd swells, their voices begin to carry throughout the room, reflecting off floor, ceiling and perimeter wall surfaces, elevating the level of background noise, and forcing a severe collapse in one’s ability to communicate across…

WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 2013 A loud fellowship hall can be rendered nearly useless as people congregate but lack the ability to communicate with one another.   Not only can this serve as a nuisance, especially to seniors who already have a hard time with their hearing, but suppose the church wants to use the space as…

MONDAY, MAY 6, 2013 The internet is chock full of soundproofing suppliers that offer prepackaged “kits” of acoustic panels, all boxed up and ready to ship at what look like very low price points.   While the internet can be a wealth of great information, it can also be a trap filled with alot of misinformation,…

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013 Sound panels are made of core material designed to captured and convert unwanted sound wave reflections within a room.   This lowers the level of ambient echo within a space, and in turn produces greater clarity to original sound.  As a result, music sounds better, human voice is more intelligible, crowd noise…

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013 Think of standing in the center of a room and blowing up a balloon until the skin of the balloon starts to touch the perimeter wall and ceiling surfaces in that room.   This is how sound waves emanate from a sound source.   Within a millisecond, every square foot of surface space…

Whether seated in a noisy restaurant, a gym filled to capacity rooting on their home team, or a preschool filled with toddlers and loud kids, the noise that our ear drum experiences is a combination of both original sound and reflected sound.   The soundproofing treatments in the marketplace do less to combat the original sound…