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Design, Construction, and Testing of Critical Listening Environment

A discussion dealing with design theory; construction implementation and acoustic testing of two advanced high-end listening/conference rooms for Mercury Records, New York City. These environments involve very low NC levels; well designed and predictable 1st and 2nd order reflection analysis. The paper will discuss the use of our firm's own acoustic ray trace software (CART-computerized acoustic ray trace) showing the various proposed designs and, of course, the final solution for the space; as well as the first United States use of curved high frequency reflector/low frequency absorber poly-cylindrical using the Japanese manufactured material Almute (aluminum). The paper will include architectural drawings, ray trace diagrams, RT60 calculations, measured results (time and frequency domain), and photos of both environments.

Author: Storyk, John
Affiliation: Walters-Storyk Design Group, NY
AES Convention:92 (March 1992) Paper Number:3328 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Architectural Acoustics

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