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design/installation: scientific design

We are proud to use scientific principles when designing and implementing audio and video systems. We value these tools because they allow us to deliver consistent, predictible results, ensuring a quality product for our clients that performs as it was designed to.

Audio

Acoustics, the study of the physical properties of sound, is complicated. However, it is predictible, governed by the laws of physics.

Understanding basic physics and using complicated computer aided modeling software, we can create reliable designs for loudspeakers systems.

Using computerized measurement tools we can properly set up and tune loudspeaker systems to work their best.

EASE - designing loudspeaker systems

Because of the significance of the acoustic environment, or rooms that we find ourselves working in, the term ‘system’ refers to more than simply the components that we might propose to install, but rather the interaction between these components, their placement in the room, and the characteristics of the room. For this reason, in depth analysis and design, taking into consideration the acoustical characteristics of the room is important.

To do this, we use a computer program call EASE, or Electro Acoustic Simulation for Engineers.

Within EASE, we would build a CAD, or Computer Aided Drafting, model of your room. Once this model is built, reflective (acoustic) characteristics are applied to all of the interior surfaces within the model.

Every credible professional loudspeaker on the market has documented parameters that we can use within this software.

Using this model on the computer we can experiment with different loudspeaker choices and locations within your specific room. The software will give us accurate predictive measurements of the intelligibility, frequency capabilities, coverage patterns, and many other characteristics of these different loudspeaker systems.

Based on the models built in the software, we can show you loudpeaker systems at different prices and recommend a loudspeaker system for your specific room.

Smaart - tuning loudspeaker systems

Loudspeaker systems can be complicated. Many benefit from DSPs or Digital Signal Processors. These DSPs have incredible capacity to tune or tweak a loudspeaker system for their particular application.

DSPs may include many features. The include equalizers that balance different frequencies and compensat for acoustic charachteristics of the room, digital delays that compensate for locations of different loudspeakers and the interaction between these loudspeakers. They may also include dynamics processing, crossovers, and other powerful features.

Using Smaart we can accuratly measure, in real time, the interaction of the loudspeaker system with the room and adjustments made to the DSP.

Video

Light meters - acurrately predicting the effectiveness of projectors

Using a light meter we can accurately measure the ambient light in a room. Based on the measurements of ambient light and the screen size that we are projecting on, using accepted standards we can mathematically determine the required power of a projector.