Why and where Roundffusor1? Using our R1 you can obtain pristine natural acoustical environments for Recording Studios , High-End rooms, City Halls & Conference halls, Music Halls, Swimming pool, Listening rooms, Home theaters, CD mastering, Film mix and dubbing stages, Music Schools and practice rooms, shock waves attenuation in tunnels, Churches . We can also tune your existent room to subtle musical requirements.
Usual question : Should I combine the R1 with other acoustic treatment ? No, R1 is designed to be a complete acoustical solution, offering clean mid and high frequency diffusion and adaptable absorption from complex Helmholtz resonators with large apertures for low and very low frequencies.
Absorbent materials will limit or eliminate the effects of diffusion. also lowering the intelligibility. The absorption is reducing the sound energy in the mid and high frequency zone, there, in the ”heart” of music. * Absorption also, is reducing some initial part (2 to 5 msec, depending upon absorption quantity) from the signal’s impulse *, ”reducing” meaning that simply you cannot hear it. Half efficient diffusers or simple geometrical diffusers also produces absorption or just some near field reflections. Foams or porous materials covered with fabrics or perforated panels are mainly used to reduce the echoes or RT60 but this is not quality musical acoustics but a bad comeback or continuity to *Low Fidelity*, even for speech or singing, name it… Office acoustics !
Using absorption of such type, along with the reduced tails of echoes, someone is loosing the beauty of the music – the mid and high frequencies. Remember, in concert halls, people bodies are absorptive at the same mid frequencies. Transparency in sound, to be recorded or reproduced is incompatible with absorption. If you understand all this and don’t want to pay tons of expensive absorptive materials covering all walls and the ceiling in any kind of rooms, try to stay away from the absorption’s troubles and use the R1. Passive and inertial thinking are not music’s best friends.
Why we insist promoting the R1? Because many people are ignoring the acoustical materials reality, being confused from such plethora of materials , practically being so heavy manipulated towards absorption.
Using absorption of such type, along with the reduced tails of echoes or sibilance and some collateral phenomena, someone is loosing the beauty of the music – the mid and high frequencies. Remember, in concert halls, people bodies are absorptive at the same mid frequencies. Transparency in sound, to be recorded or reproduced is incompatible with absorption. If you understand all this and don’t want to pay tons of expensive absorptive materials covering all walls and the ceiling in any kind of rooms, try to stay away from the absorption’s troubles and use the R1.
Some are believing that the perception of musical dissonance might be solved by absorption (obtaining the good opposite – consonance) but is wrong. There are clear correlations between room resonances, the consonance and dissonance phenomena and of course signals time propagations (multi paths) in room, I mean stereo signals in the continuum musical signals / room acoustical interface and auditory perception. All are first related to clean and real diffusion and simultaneously to the R1’s adaptability of calming the room resonances – the low and very low frequencies.
Seems that there is a little ”secret” around: the grouped R1 surfaces are ”controlling” the air in the room, bringing almost everything to harmony , to consonance. The huge R1’s complex diffusion lobe resulting in real time contains the music plus room interactions. Say, a kind of dynamic hologram and as known, each small part of it contains everything audio is inside the room. That’s why in rooms treated with R1 the sound is so musical.
As you may perceive in this page, all recording studios or dedicated rooms for music or speech made using only R1 looks like the initial rooms, just 10% – 20% of the total room surface being covered with them, the necessary absorption being provided by the complex R1’s diffusion. As all true inventions of our time, the R1 is very efficient and the most affordable from all other materials. R1 is a proof that our mind, experience and inspiration are more powerful than any computer program. The Renaissance way is still alive.