Your home theatre is busily producing enough 7.1 surround sound to convince you that you’re in the middle of a movie. Meanwhile, your soundproofing system is valiantly offsetting the immersive effects by stopping the movie soundtrack from giving your neighbour a headache. In short, it’s a balancing act, one that requires a bleeding-edge soundproofing solution. […]

Designed to attenuate noise by acting as small soundwave escape apertures, perforated panels also double up as sophisticated blocks of wall art. The pinhole patterns are drilled as 4.5-mm apertures, but there are options to increase the predrilled hole sizes in stages, all the way up to 18.5-mm. Finished as attractive veneered, painted, or stained […]

When most people think of soundproofing and sound absorption, they generally assume that lining a wall with absorbent material like foam or rubber will help to keep the sound inside a given area exclusively, with hardly a sound seeping out – a practice that is called ‘soundproofing’. Soundproofing is something that is typically desired by […]

Today, there are numerous reasons to increase the sound quality of a building, whether it is a commercial structure or a home. You may need to ensure that a large audience can hear a speaker or performer clearly as they say or even sing their words, reduce noise transference from room to room or create […]

Office spaces come in all sizes and can be located nearly anywhere, however, whether it is a personal office space or a large room, what goes on in the office should stay in the office. Not only should the noise created in office spaces be contained, especially for security purposes where credit card information and […]

Noise isolation technology talks about four-wall protection. Well, there are six walls in a room, not four. A headlong rush into a soundproofing project might make boasts about the lesser number, but a comprehensive solution considers the other surfaces. Ceilings are expertly addressed as the penultimate sound leakage surface here, but what about floors? Is […]

At times, certain rooms in a structure require special attention to their acoustical nature. Reasons for this include musicians trying to play or record songs and people presenting speeches or other events that require efficient sound delivery for all to hear. When you neglect to install the right aids to prevent the noise, music or […]

The world around us is a noisy place. It’s so noisy that a brief visit to a soundproof cubicle can be a shocking experience. We get used to background sound. Our brains are filtering ambient tones, so we imagine our environment is quiet. A recording studio requires real quiet, not the filtered quiet our malleable […]

Down in the basement, sump pumps are clearing flood water while washing machines spin and water pipes rattle. Even if the noises subside, the basement furnace fills the silence with a loud whoosh. It’s a noisy subterranean room, but you can stop the mechanical cacophony by soundproofing basement ceilings. Basement Noise Angles Upwards  By picturing […]

In part one, occupational noise occupied our attention. We demonstrated the hazards associated with loud noises. Permanent hearing impairment ranked highly, as did worker distraction. Different sound frequencies blunted the high end of an employee’s hearing, and sudden noises were causing physical injuries when they startled machine operators during a work-critical juncture. Let’s continue and […]