When we talk about establishing a home entertainment system, most people think that it’s about the best speakers, amps and receivers and don’t think that the room design is also important when it comes to sound quality. At Desert Sound, we not only specialise in sound performance but also in optimising your acoustic environment, which provides you with an immersive listening environment.

In this section, we guide you on how interior design can enhance your sound system and how we can assist you in creating a space that brings out the best for your audio system.

1. Why Room Acoustics Matters.

Have you ever noticed that in a room with poor acoustics, the expensive sound systems can sound underwhelming? It’s because sound waves bounce off surfaces, get absorbed or become muffled depending on the material you have used. Elements like wall materials, flooring and furniture cause a high impact on how sound behaves.

Poor Acoustics lead to problems like

•       Echoes and reverb
•       Compromise clarity
•       Uneven bass
•       Sound distortion

At Desert Sound, we often demonstrate in a way that a concert grand piano won’t sound magical in a tiled bathroom. Similarly, your sound system can’t sound optimally if your room is not tuned acoustically.

2. Elements that Influence Acoustics

a. Room shape and size

Rooms with parallel walls, and most likely square rooms, produce standing waves that form reflections that are disturbing to clean audio. Rooms with a large size may absorb sound, and rooms that are small have more bass.

b. Materials of Wall and Ceilings

Echoes are caused by solid materials that are reflective, such as glass and concrete, and sound is absorbed by soft materials, such as fabric and acoustic panels.

c. Flooring

Hardwood and tile will reflect the sound, whereas carpets and rugs will absorb it and block out sharp reflection.

d. Furniture Layout

The couches, bookshelves and curtains are more than just decorations and influence the way sound is transmitted through your room immensely.

3. Improving Room Acoustics: How

Enhancing room acoustics does not imply a complete redesign. It is a big difference brought about by some small strategic adjustments.

a. Apply area rugs and curtains. Use Area Rugs and Curtains

Echo can be significantly minimised by placing the rugs in the listening section and by having heavy curtains placed.

1. Install Panels in Acoustics

Acoustic panels that are mounted on the wall absorb intermediate and high sound frequencies, thus enhancing clarity without a radical transformation of your look. In Desert Sound, we do customised panelling which fits into your interior.

c. Put in place Bass Traps

The bass trap is constructed to soak up sound that is low in frequency and normally accumulates in corners. We put them in tactically to flatten irregular bass response.

1. Furniture Smartly Placed

Breaking up sound paths with plush furniture (giant sofas) or bookshelves, at reflection points (such as side walls) can help break up the sound and make harshness more palatable.

4. Techniques of Speaker Placement

Key to the realisation of ideal acoustics is the position and the placement of your speakers:

The front speakers have to be balanced at ear level and at the same distance from the listening position.

The speakers who are around should be a bit higher than the ears, behind or at the side of the audience.

We might have to relocate subwoofers in order to prevent annoying bass; we calibrate that properly using professional calibration equipment.

During the time of installations, we at Desert Sound employ high-precision tools and on-the-fly analysers in locating optimal placements of each patch using the geometry of your room.

5. DIY vs. Professional Acoustic Treatment

Although there are improvements that can be done on DIY terms, e.g. putting the rugs or curtains, the professional acoustic treatment will require both a scientific and design background. Placing the panels wrong or neglecting the bass frequencies instead of this may only create more problems.

We combine both technical expertise and flair of ancillary design–so not only will your room sound terrific, it will appear amazing.

6. How Desert Sound can assist

Sound System sellers and installers we are not, but builders of total acoustic settings (it all sounds too close to home). This is what you receive working with us:

Personalised acoustic consultation

Measurement and analysis of the room

Special panelling and decor-complementary materials

Expert system tuning and speaker calibration

Continuous support and system upgrades

Whatever your home cinema needs are, whether you use it as a media room or simply a versatile living room, we ensure that every note and discernments come to your ears as the artists have created.

Final Thought 

coming up with the ultimate sound, much more than spending on expensive gear? It is imperative to get room acoustics right to enable your sound system to work on Desert Sound. The materials of the walls, the room geometry, the height of the ceilings, as well as the arrangement of furniture and even curtains, may greatly improve or worsen sound quality.

This is the reason why we pursue a holistic view of sound system installation. When we step into your premises, our first order of business is to evaluate the acoustic situation and develop solutions that would optimise the potential of your system. Your home theatre system, a living room sound system improvement or a multi-room music system, we custom-tune every project according to the unique features of your space.

We collaborate with homeowners, architects and interior designers so that we can suggest your custom treatment, such as acoustic panels, speaker positioning, which is perfectly mixed with the look of your space. We also have a post-installation tuning which will ensure your space sounds as well as it looks.

Whether the speaker is ordinary or extraordinary is not necessarily because of the brand of the speaker rather how the speaker has been able to match with the room. On the Desert sound, you are not only satisfied with sound equipment; you are treated with acoustic expertise and full-life integration according to your lifestyle.

When you are prepared to have a feel of what optimised sound is, call us now. And let Desert Sound change your place into a listening space where all notes, dialogues, and beats are brought to life, just as they should be heard.