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My first rude awakening to the fact of noise from video projectors came following the opening of a renovated executive education room at a prestigious Boston-area…
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by John Lloyd “Classical audiences are old, classical music is older, and both are dying.” If you follow classical music, or even if you don’t, you’ve…
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In the architectural acoustics community, the story of Wallace Clement Sabine is well known: he developed his famous (and eponymous) reverberation time equation based on research…
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I have a confession to make… I miss sound masking! So, I’ve working in an open-plan office for the last 10 years where electronic sound masking…
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The New York Times critic Michael Kimmelman beautifully presented a love for sound and the distinctive sounds that characterize the spaces around us in the article,…
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Hearing is believing! Acentech’s 3DListening® service is a valuable tool that can simulate how a finished project will sound before construction even begins. Actually, the applications for…
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Among these are the environmental sounds from a building’s heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning equipment. How can design professionals help mitigate the distraction caused by HVAC? In…
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) rooms are some of the loudest spaces in healthcare facilities. Sound levels near the room boundary can reach 100 to 105 dBA,…
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The days of an empty, sterile lobby with nothing but a security desk and a skylight are over. The lobby or atrium (or “commons” or “courtyard”…
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