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Vicoustic Wave Wood Acoustic Panels (Set of 10)

M@ster — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 22:58:07 +0000

Vicoustic Wave Wood panels give you a balance of absorption and diffusion, letting you tame reflections without rendering your room acoustically dead.

Vicoustic developed the Wave Wood using their Absorption and Reflection Control System (ARCS). The design is based on a modified Maximum Length Sequence (MLS) diffuser. An MLS diffuser uses slats of reflective material (wood) and absorptive material (in this case, acoustic foam), creating a pseudo-random binary pattern based on a Maximum Length Sequence. Vicoustic then optimized this pattern to give the Wave Wood panel a desirable absorption curve with respect to frequency.

In the Wave Wood, the patterned surface provides absorption at mid frequencies (maximum absorption between 400 Hz and 1 kHz), and a combination of absorption and diffusion at higher frequencies.

Sound Absorption Coefficient Graph

But the Wave Wood acoustic panel is more than just an MSL diffuser. Instead of making all the absorptive strips the same length, the cavities in the Wave Wood’s surface vary in length to provide additional scattering and achieve an optimal balance of reflection vs absorption.

This makes the Wave Wood instantly recognizable. Many audio professionals, audiophiles and musicians love the look of these unique acoustic panels. As a result, the Wave Wood can be found decorating the walls and ceilings of recording studios, hi-fi listening rooms, home theaters and music venues around the world.

As a hybrid absorber-diffuser (or diffsorber), the Vicoustic Wave Wood is an ideal treatment for creating a controlled sound in your room while keeping it bright, airy and ambient. It lets you balance the frequency response and reverberation times in your room, without killing the liveliness.

The hybrid Wave Wood surface is primarily designed for treating mid to high frequencies.

High frequencies are precious because they decay fastest and get absorbed easily — not just by acoustic treatment, but by furniture, carpet, drapes and fabric surfaces. As a result, most rooms have much longer reverberation times at low and mid frequencies. This can make a room sound imbalanced.

Over emphasis of the low end makes a room sound muddy and boomy, while too much energy in the mids can make a room sound cheap and lo-fi.

The solution: Wave Wood panels provide more absorption at mid frequencies, and more scattering / reflection at high frequencies. This helps you correct the imbalance so you can achieve a rich, high fidelity sound in your room.

With proper application, the Wave Wood can also help you achieve a neutral sound for critical listening in your mixing, mastering or control room. In this case the goal is a relatively flat frequency response and relatively even decay times across the audible spectrum. This requires extensive bass trapping and broadband absorption, which can over-damp the high frequencies in your room. To solve this problem you can use Wave Wood panels to tame mids while retaining some high frequency liveliness in your critical listening room.

The Wave Wood is a great alternative to broadband absorption for treating problems like flutter echo and comb filtering caused by early reflections. Unlike broadband absorption panels, which remove energy at mid and high frequencies, the Wave Wood absorbs harsh mids while dispersing precious high frequency energy throughout your room.

This way you can treat problematic reflections while simultaneously creating a musical ambience and sense of spaciousness in your room.

Vicoustic Wave Wood panels can be mounted a variety of ways. They can be mounted flat on the wall, on the ceiling as acoustic tiles, or straddling a corner to achieve lower frequency absorption. However, we recommend purpose build bass traps for low frequency treatment, like the Vicoustic Super Bass Extreme. The Super Bass Extreme is surfaced with a Wave Wood panel, making it a perfect aesthetic fit for a Wave Wood themed room treatment project.

The Wave Wood is available in five attractive wood finishes: cherry, light Brown, nordik, wenge and white.

If you’re looking to treat your whole room, click here for your personalized Vicoustic room treatment plan. We can assess your room and design a custom-fit acoustic treatment kit just for you.

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Primacoustic Broadway Broadband Acoustic Panels – 2″ Thick (Set of 6)

M@ster — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:01:59 +0000

Primacoustic's Broadway Broadband Absorbers are great looking, easy to install acoustic panels designed to give you tight control over primary reflections and reverberation time.

These larger 24" x 48" absorptive panels are ideal when you need to cover a sizeable surface area with absorption. Broadband Absorbers can be mounted side-by-side for complete wall coverage or spread out to leave some natural ambience in your room. 2-inch thick Broadband panels provide excellent absorption from 350 – 4500+ Hz. Absorption coefficients are available on the Primacoustic website.

For basic low frequency control 2-inch and 3-inch Broadband panels can be mounted straddling the corners of your room using corner impalers. However, we recommend purpose-built bass traps or double-thickness Broadway panels for this application. Broadband panels can also be used in drop ceilings as the 24" x 48" panel size fits standard T-bare grid layouts.

Broadway Broadband Absorbers come in 1-inch, 2-inch and 3-inch thick panels with your choice of a square or beveled edge. Available fabric colors are beige, grey or black.

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Primacoustic Broadway Broadband Acoustic Panels – 3″ Thick (Set of 4)

M@ster — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:45:35 +0000

Primacoustic's Broadway Broadband Absorbers are great looking, easy to install acoustic panels designed to give you tight control over primary reflections and reverberation time.

For basic low frequency control thicker 2" and 3" Broadband panels can be mounted straddling the corners of your room using corner impalers. However, we recommend purpose-built bass traps or double-thickness Broadway panels for this application. Broadband panels can also be used in drop ceilings as the 24" x 48" panel size fits standard T-bare grid layouts.

Broadway Broadband Absorbers come in 1-inch, 2-inch and 3-inch thick panels. Available fabric colors are beige, grey or black.

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Primacoustic Broadway Broadband Panels – 1″ Thick (Set of 6)

M@ster — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:57:25 +0000

Primacoustic's Broadway Broadband Absorbers are great looking, easy to install acoustic panels designed to give you tight control over primary reflections and reverberation time.

1" thick Broadband panels provide mid/high frequency absorption from 1000 - 4500+ Hz. However, for most applications 2-inch Broadband Panels are the better choice, providing excellent absorption from 350 – 4500+ Hz. Absorption coefficients are available on the Primacoustic website.

Broadway Broadband Absorbers can be used in drop ceilings as the 24" x 48" panel size fits standard T-bare grid layouts.

Available in 1-inch, 2-inch and 3-inch thick panels. Color options are beige, grey or black.

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Primacoustic Broadway Control Columns – 2″ Thick (Set of 12)

M@ster — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:26:42 +0000

Primacoustic's Broadway Control Columns are great looking, easy to install acoustic panels designed to give you tight control over primary reflections and reverberation time.

They can be mounted side-by-side for complete wall coverage or spread out to leave some natural ambience in your room. Like all 2-inch thick panels in the Primacoustic Broadway series, 2-inch thick Control Columns provide excellent absorption from 350 – 4500+ Hz (absorption coefficients are available on the Primacoustic website).

Broadway Control Columns come in your choice of a square or beveled edge. Available fabric colors are beige, grey or black.

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Primacoustic Broadway Control Cubes – 2″ Thick (Set of 12)

M@ster — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:39:39 +0000

Primacoustic's Broadway Control Cubes are great looking, easy to install acoustic panels designed to give you tight control over primary reflections and reverberation time.

They can be mounted side-by-side for complete wall coverage or spaced out in a checkerboard pattern to leave some natural ambience in your room. For a different look, an array of Control Cubes can be tilted 45 degrees, forming a diamond pattern.

Like all 2-inch thick panels in the Primacoustic Broadway series, 2-inch thick Control Cubes provide excellent absorption from 350 – 4500+ Hz (absorption coefficients are available on the Primacoustic website).

Broadway Control Cubes come in your choice of a square or beveled edge. Available fabric colors are beige, grey or black.

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Primacoustic Broadway Scatter Blocks – 2″ Thick (Set of 24)

M@ster — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:47:29 +0000

Primacoustic's Scatter Blocks are designed to help you control primary reflections and reverberation time without eliminating the natural ambience in your room.

In a typical application, Scatter Blocks would be quazi-randomly spaced on your wall to create a combination of absorption and scattering. For an example of how they can be used in live-end, dead-end room designs, see the London 16 room kit.

Scatter blocks also provide a cost effective way to reduce the reverberation time in larger spaces such as music rooms, dance studios, fitness centers and classrooms.

Like all 2-inch thick panels in the Primacoustic Broadway series, 2-inch thick Scatter Blocks provide excellent absorption from 350 – 4500+ Hz (absorption coefficients are available on the Primacoustic website).

Broadway Scatter Blocks come in your choice of beige, grey or black.

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Primacoustic Broadway Scatter Blocks – 1″ Thick (Set of 24)

M@ster — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 00:36:52 +0000

Primacoustic's Scatter Blocks are designed to help you control primary reflections and reverberation time without eliminating the natural ambience in your room.

Scatter blocks also provide a cost effective way to reduce the reverberation time in larger spaces such as music rooms, dance studios, fitness centers and classrooms.

Like all 1-inch thick panels in the Primacoustic Broadway series, these 1-inch thick Scatter Blocks provide provide mid/high frequency absorption from 1000 - 4500+ Hz. If you want better broadband absorption consider the 2-inch Scatter Blocks, which provide excellent absorption from 350 – 4500+ Hz (absorption coefficients are available on the Primacoustic website).

Broadway Scatter Blocks come in your choice of beige, grey or black.

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Primacoustic Stratus Broadband Ceiling Cloud (Single Panel)

M@ster — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 08:58:03 +0000

The Primacoustic Stratus is an absorptive ceiling cloud that's ideally suited to hanging above the listening position to control early reflections and flutter echo. Use the Stratus to help create a reflection free zone (RFZ) at your listening position, which will dramatically increase clarity for mixing and critical listening.

The Stratus ships in kit-form and can easily be assembled in minutes using a screw driver. The kit includes a single 2-inch thick, 24" x 48" acoustic panel with all the necessary installation hardware. The suspension hardware consists of two lightweight aluminum rails and "L" brackets that form a rigid frame around the panel and allow multiple panels to be joined together. It's a modular ceiling cloud system that can expand to meet your needs.

Typically, the Stratus would be suspended above the console and clustered in an array of three (as shown) to span the width of your console or listening area.

On its own, the 2-inch thick fiberglass panel is an effective broadband absorber from 400 to 4500+ Hz. To help control a broader frequency spectrum, the Stratus may be angled to vary the air space between the panels and the ceiling. This air space helps the Stratus absorb lower frequencies, while the tilt increases the effective surface area by letting the back surface absorb reflections off the ceiling.

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Primacoustic Saturna Hanging Ceiling Baffle

M@ster — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:44:41 +0000

The Primacoustic Saturna is a high performance acoustic baffle designed for commercial installations where acoustic control and aesthetics are important.

Construction begins with two high-density 6 lb/cu ft glass wool panels that are fully encapsulated with micromesh and bound with resin hardened edges. This prevents the minute glass fibers from escaping during the handling process. Each panel is then hand wrapped in a durable acoustically transparent fabric that is both attractive and easy to clean. The two panels are then clamped together with the adjustable hanging straps and ready to install right out of the box.

Installing Saturna baffles is easy and the results are immediately noticeable, with shorter reverberation time and improved intelligibility. Because Saturna is twice the density of most other baffles, you will enjoy greater low frequency absorption and a more natural sounding room.

As with all Broadway panels, the Saturna is safe for use anywhere. Panels have been ASTM-E84 and Can/UL S102 tested to meet stringent class-A requirements for use in public places. This makes the Saturna suitable for schools, hotel lobbies, convention centers, airports and other places where esthetics are important as well as balanced acoustical performance.

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