II Seminário de Música, Ciência e Tecnologia

Abstract

FUJIMOTO, Antonio K., BISTAFA, Sylvio R. and VIVEIROS, Elvira B. Estudo da qualidade acústica de uma sala residencial para uso de sistemas de áudio e vídeo. In Proceedings of the 2. II Seminário de Música, Ciência e Tecnologia, 2005, São Paulo (SP) [online]. 2005 [cited 05 October 2024]. Available from: <http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000102005000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso> .

This article is based on the master dissertation of one of the authors (FUJIMOTO 2004), and presents the main acoustic diagnosing results and alterationsadjustments to render a domestic room appropriate to be used as a home theater, equipped with a commercial 5.1 system. The acoustic alterations, based on the measurements of acoustic quality parameters for small rooms, pointed to the need of a well-damped room, with diffusion to enhance the surround effects, which was accomplished with QRD diffusers in the room lateral walls. A 2^nd subwoofer strategically located on the back of the audition area was found necessary for the spatial uniformity of the low frequency acoustic response and for a better reproduction of the low frequency effects.

Keywords : Room Acoustics; Architectural Acoustics; Sound Quality; Sound Diffusors.