Acoustic panels have always been essential for recording studios, podcasters, and at-home musicians, but they’re useful in other spaces too. In an effort to achieve peaceful quiet — or better sound ...

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My brother introduced me to sound-deadening panels a few years ago when he bought some for his basement home theatre to reduce echo. They're a fibreglass-matting-like material inside a cloth cover ...

Hard surfaces and high ceilings are major contributing factors to noisy, echoing spaces. Inhabitat met Kirei founder John Stein at his Greenbuild booth where he explained that designers should ideally ...

Having acoustic issues in your listening space? The Atlantic SOUNDFIX panels might be a DIY solution worth checking out. The room is the most important component in any stereo or home theater system ...

As pandemic restrictions lift and workers return to the office, many are quickly being reminded of one big downside to many open office environments: the noise. Office noise like typing and chewing ...

The acoustic properties of a room have a surprising impact when you want to use a microphone. [RayP24]’s son was trying to make his bedroom into a better recording studio, and for [Ray], that turned ...

[Eric Wolfram] wrote in to let us know about a simple and cheap acoustic panel DIY he put together. When installing a home theater acoustics are often neglected (especially if you spend so much on the ...

OBJECTIVES: To assess the amplification and distortion of noise in incubators by measuring noise levels from various sources under various conditions. STUDY DESIGN: We recorded sound pressure levels ...