Acoustics Fundamentals

Why good rooms sound bad, and what a technician can do about it

Every technician eventually stands in a beautiful room with an expensive sound system and hears it sound terrible. The presenter is loud and impossible to understand. The bass booms at the back and vanishes at the front. Every word comes back twice from the glass wall. Somebody asks for more level, and it gets worse.

Inside: Before You Begin - Why the Room Matters - Reverberation & Clarity - Absorption, and Why Frequency Matters - Common Room Problems - Noise and Isolation - Treating a Space - Measuring a Room - Acoustics & AV Decisions - Glossary.