Sound Diffusers are designed to scatter or disperse sound waves, thereby reducing standing waves and echoes and creating a better listening environment. Adding sound diffusion to your acoustic room treatment can improve the speech intelligibility and improve the overall listening environment within the room without adding excessive amounts of sound absorption materials to the room.
Effective use of sound diffusers is often the first step in treating a room’s acoustics. Sound diffusers are designed to redirect or disperse sound waves to lessen the number of standing waves or echoes, resulting in an improved listening environment. The use of sound absorbers alone in a room can create a cavernous feeling. Combining sound diffusers with sound absorbers improves speech intelligibility as well as the overall listening environment.
Sound diffusion in a control room imparts the all-important Initial Time Delay (ITD) that keeps early reflections off room boundaries from getting to your ears too soon and smearing the direct sound you hear from your monitors. In conjunction with sound absorption, sound diffusion can effectively turn virtually any space into one that is appropriate and useful for the purpose of recording or monitoring sound with a high degree of accuracy.
