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Home Cinema Insight | Acoustic Treatment
Vicoustic acoustic
treatment packages
are now available
direct from Pulse
Cinemas
Sounds Like A Plan!
As home cinema increases in its scope and as more clients require
higher performance in a wider range of environment, acoustic
treatment takes on a whole new level of importance.
Pulse Cinemas recently upped the ante on its acoustic
treatment offering with the addition of the Vicoustic
brand. A company with vast experience in the field
of acoustics, Vicoustic has created some designs
specifically for home cinema. Vicoustic says that
although in today’s home cinema world new powerful
sound reproduction and signal processing tools
including acoustic correction features are available,
acoustic room treatment is still very important.
Vicoustic says the ultimate goal should be that the
listener is able to clearly hear what has been recorded with
minimum influence from external sources such as; room’s
acoustics, noise from mechanical sources and noise from
sources located in the theatre’s adjacent spaces.
The maker says there are three main areas of concern;
improving sound insulation between home cinema and
adjacent spaces, limiting internal background noise
levels, as well as designing internal treatment to control
the cinema’s reverberation time, and avoid echo, flutter
echoes and room resonances.
A quality experience necessarily includes achieving
high signal-to-noise ratios. In order to achieve this, the
sound insulation between the cinema and adjacent
spaces needs to be well designed.
Generally, home cinema walls, ceiling and floor sound
insulation performance should be designed taking
into account the background noise criteria selected
for the home cinema, the anticipated noise generated
in theatre’s adjacent spaces and the degree of noise
sensitivity of the theatre’s adjacent spaces.
Vicoustic says that based on these three subjects,
the sound insulation performance should be defined in
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