Acoustic Panels
Acoustic Panels is sound-control panels installed on walls or ceilings to reduce reflections, echo, reverberation, and listening fatigue.
Acoustic Paneling & Room Acoustics
Davis Acoustic Paneling terms and planning language for Chicago-area residential and commercial AV projects.
Definition Category
Acoustic Paneling & Room Acoustics
Acoustic Paneling
Acoustic Paneling is a system of acoustic panels selected and placed to improve sound quality in theaters, media rooms, restaurants, offices, or listening spaces.
Acoustic Treatment
Acoustic Treatment is the planned use of absorption, diffusion, bass trapping, and placement to improve how a room sounds.
Sound Absorption
Sound Absorption is the reduction of reflected sound energy when sound waves hit absorptive materials.
Sound Diffusion
Sound Diffusion is the scattering of sound reflections so energy spreads more evenly rather than bouncing sharply back to the listener.
Bass Trap
Bass Trap is an acoustic treatment designed to absorb low-frequency energy that tends to build up in corners and room boundaries.
Ceiling Cloud
Ceiling Cloud is an acoustic panel or group of panels suspended from the ceiling to absorb reflections above a seating or listening area.
Reverberation
Reverberation is the persistence of sound in a room after the original sound stops, caused by repeated reflections.
Flutter Echo
Flutter Echo is a rapid repeating echo created when sound bounces between parallel hard surfaces.
Room Mode
Room Mode is a low-frequency resonance caused by room dimensions that can create boomy or weak bass at different seats.
First Reflection
First Reflection is the earliest strong sound reflection from a wall, ceiling, or floor after sound leaves a speaker.
NRC Rating
NRC Rating is noise reduction coefficient, a rating that indicates how much sound a material absorbs on average.
RT60
RT60 is the time it takes sound to decay by 60 decibels in a room, commonly used to describe reverberation time.
Speech Intelligibility
Speech Intelligibility is how clearly spoken words can be understood in a room or through a sound system.
Soundproofing
Soundproofing is construction methods intended to reduce sound transfer between spaces, which is different from acoustic treatment inside a room.