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The acoustic environment—your listening room—can be as significant as the components that make up your stereo. We have people tell us all the time that they had no idea that acoustic treatment could make such a dramatic difference to their experience of enjoying music. |
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We’re happy to talk with you about the options that will improve sound in your room and help you understand various acoustic considerations that will impact the enjoyment of music. We have rooms setup with materials from both Primacoustic and Vicoustic. Both companies offer excellent products to significantly enhance your listening experience. We also offer acoustic isolation solutions to bring greater clarity for various kinds of stereo components like CD players, speakers, and even amplifiers! Come and have a listen and you may be very surprised with the difference you hear when using these kinds of products. |
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Have a look at the pictures and logos listed below and you will know that you can find many of the best brands in the world. |
Primacoustic
Acoustics
Primacoustic
The problem with listening rooms
Never has there been more interest in the area of high fidelity audio. Long play albums have become cool again and audiophiles are spending more on their 2-channel setups than ever before. But no matter how much you spend on a new needle, cables, preamp, or amplifier, the improvement will only be incremental until you have addressed the room acoustics. Most dedicated listening rooms are spare bedrooms or converted basements with hard gypsum walls that echo energy back into the room in the form of powerful first-order reflections and secondary ones known as flutter echo. These reflections blur or muddy the information making it more difficult to hear the recording as it was mixed or identify individual instruments. Excessive bass creates room modes whereby certain frequencies will collide ‘in phase’ to create bumps or ‘if out of phase’, cancel each other out to create frequency dips. This causes the sound to change depending on where you are sitting in the room.
How can Primacoustic help you?
As with most things, the solution can be modest, advanced or over the top depending on your space and budget. The first line of treatment is to apply 2” (5cm) thick Broadway acoustic panels strategically on the side walls to absorb first order reflections. This is done by sitting in your listening chair while someone slides a mirror across the wall to mark where the speaker reflections begin and end. High frequencies are very directional so using vectors to predict primary reflections is easy. Absorbing energy behind the loudspeaker not only helps attenuate the fold-back echo, it also helps reduce flutter echo in your room. Using a Primacoustic London 12 room kit is a good starting point. You can then add more control by incorporating two or more Max Trap bass traps in the corners or by adding Cumulus tri-corner traps up high, out of the way. Bass traps attenuate low frequencies which in turn reduce the audible effect of room modes. For the ultimate listening space, you can add diffusion behind the listening area to add a greater sense of space to your room. The Razorblade is a true quadratic residue diffuser with 17 narrow slots that will effectively diffuse directional energy above 200Hz. For the most discerning audiophile, the ultimate goal is to create a listening space that is neutral yet not overly dry so as to retain the excitement in the room.
Vicoustic
Acoustics
Vicoustic
Vicoustic is dedicated to provide great acoustics, enhancing rooms for great sound. But what makes the company unique is their attention to design. Each and every environment, private as well as public places should be comfortable for the people with great acoustics and a pleasing design. This is why Vicoustic is unique in its commitment to the research and development of products and services in the acoustic field and at the same time providing acoustical solution with a unique and comforting look. Vicoustic is simply more than a manufacturer of acoustic treatment and insulation products. With its own Research Laboratory and specialized team of designers and engineers, Vicoustic also provides support and advice to maximize customer satisfaction in the use of its products. Vicoustic covers acoustic markets, ranging from the acoustic insulation of buildings and industrial machinery, to hi-fi, home cinema, music and broadcast studios.
Vicoustic is dedicated to provide great acoustics, enhancing rooms for great sound. But what makes the company unique is their attention to design. Each and every environment, private as well as public places should be comfortable for the people with great acoustics and a pleasing design. This is why Vicoustic is unique in its commitment to the research and development of products and services in the acoustic field and at the same time providing acoustical solution with a unique and comforting look. Vicoustic is simply more than a manufacturer of acoustic treatment and insulation products. With its own Research Laboratory and specialized team of designers and engineers, Vicoustic also provides support and advice to maximize customer satisfaction in the use of its products. Vicoustic covers acoustic markets, ranging from the acoustic insulation of buildings and industrial machinery, to hi-fi, home cinema, music and broadcast studios.
A Multifunctional Room with magnetic walls that allows Vicoustic to mount and dismount any combination of products, to study performance, quality, design and aesthetics, instantaneously.
Lab Test Facility is an innovative chamber with exclusive features that continues to be unique in the world. The objective was to build an adaptive volume chamber, allowing Vicoustic to perform acoustic tests in various sized rooms. Thanks to a 4-ton mechanical wall that travels on a set of rails, they can define the exact measurements of the chamber, and adjust the length of sound waves, produced inside.
The wall has a custom-made insulation system that is remotely controlled by a hydraulic system, completely blocking sound transmission, inside and out. It includes a cutting-edge laboratory infrastructure that converts into three hybrid states: Low Frequency Resonation Chamber, Reverberation Chamber, and an Anechoic Chamber. Inside the hybrid test lab, they have installed four subwoofers and one B&K Omnidirectional loudspeaker that will generate specific sound waves called Plane Waves. By positioning the mechanical wall, it is possible to study any product sample at precise frequencies. The sound behavior is captured using B&K microphones, insuring reliable data to continue analyses. The technology and rigorous in-house testing are the foundation of each and every product, making Vicoustic a distinguished brand and leader.
