Remote Acoustical Diagnosis Service

Overview

Acoustical Diagnosis is the process of understanding the acoustical issues of your listening room or home theater. We synthesize acoustical measurements and a review of your system against acoustic design best practices to develop a set of improvement recommendations. It will help you answer questions like:

• How is my room degrading sound quality?
• How does my room measure up to industry best practices?
• What acoustic treatment does my room need?

This page is for our remote Acoustical Diagnosis that we offer our national and international clients. We also have a local acoustical diagnosis service for the Greater SF Bay Area (map).

What you get

• Optional loan of an acoustic measurement kit for you to take measurements and send back to us.
• Scoring of your system against the Acoustic Frontiers set of 'Acoustic Design Principles', an extensive list compiled from personal experience and industry best practices.
• Analysis and scoring of your room's acoustic measurements against the Acoustic Frontiers set of 'Acoustical Measurement Standards'.
• A summary of how the issues identified from measurement and the best practice review affect sound quality and what the opportunity for improvement is.
• High level acoustic treatment recommendations.
• Recommendations on use of EQ, seating and listening positions, etc.
• 25-30 page Acoustical Diagnosis Report summarizing our findings and recommendations.
• Unlimited email and phone support.

How it works

• Purchase the Remote Acoustical Diagnosis Service from our website
• We'll call you to discuss which approach to taking the acoustic measurements you want to take. There are three options:

1. Have Acoustic Frontiers send you our measurement kit - comprising a Sony PCM recorder, a calibrated Galaxy Audio CM130 SPL meter and a set of test tones on CD / USB key. Have a read of the instructions included with the kit.
2. Buy the XTZ Room Analyzer II Pro acoustic measurement package in a box and send us the measurement file
3. Take measurements using your own equipment and send them to us (ideal if you have Room EQ Wizard or another piece of software that can export an impulse response)

• You take the measurements and send them to us together with photos of your room and a sketch of the layout of speakers, listening seats, windows, etc
• We crunch the data, review your system against a set of best practice acoustic design principles and send you the 25-30 page Acoustical Diagnosis Report

More details on this page. Have questions? Contact Us