Things you should know about home theatres and sound control

After months or years of dreaming about and designing your home theatre installation, you ultimately make your decisions and go out and buy all the electronic equipments. You bring everything at home and set up the speakers, run the cable and connect to the new plasma TV. You sit down on your new couch and hit play to bask all your hard work after installing the rubber isolation mounts.
 
This is when you understand your new system doesn’t have the same sound quality as it was in the showroom. You double check all the settings, equipments and connections are all correct, and this is when you understand that the acoustics of the room are just as vital to the overall sound quality as the audio equipment that is being utilized. You also have to make sure that there is a proper sound absorption system. 

 

Audi experts and sound engineers have known for years that the physical features of the listening room are important. Sadly, this may be neglected by many people doing it on their own that are trying to set up the ideal home theatre. What you mainly need is a stretch fabric ceiling.
 
If extra sound absorption is required, ceiling treatment can be done by adding panels to the stretch fabric ceiling that provide both streamlined patterns or designs blended with high sound absorption values.
 
The amount of echo control in the sound chamber of the room should be mindfully evaluated according to the rooms, too much absorption and your room will be acoustically dead. On the contrary, less absorption of sound and the room will be too live with too much echo. It will be always better to consult an acoustical consultant or an acoustical material supplier to decide the appropriate sound absorption for your own home theatre design.