One of the most common “generic” acoustic treatment recommendations is to treat the reflection points. Unfortunately properly managing early reflected sounds is actually very complex psychoacoustically. Blindly treating reflection points with the wrong kind of products can make your sound worse. For a high performance high-end audio listening room, home recording studio or home theater […]

Client Profile Mr. Levandowski is a retired computer executive and an aspiring rock and roll drummer in Napa, California. Project Overview The client had recently converted his garage into a music studio for practicing his drumming and accommodating jam sessions with his garage band. The interior walls and a ceiling were constructed using 2-ply Quiet […]

This article covers the four main ways in which you can measure your room’s acoustics. In decreasing ease of use order these are: Integrated software / hardware packages such as XTZ Room Analyzer and Dayton Audio Omnimic Standalone software packages and your choice of measurement microphone, cabling and soundcard such as Room EQ Wizard Hardware devices such […]

Some of the many questions that can be found scattered across the internet and overheard in conversations amongst audiophiles today relate to room acoustic measurements: What are the key measurements? How do I interpret them? What does good look like? How do they relate to each other? These questions arise from the recent availability of […]