Articles tagged “meeting room”
3 articles covering meeting room in acoustic engineering and building design.
Conference Room Acoustics — RT60, STI & AV Design Guide | AcousPlan
Complete guide to conference room acoustics: RT60 targets of 0.4–0.6s, STI requirements, AV system interaction, and treatment strategies with a worked example for a 50 m³ meeting room.
The 125Hz Problem Nobody Treats — Why Your Meeting Room Still Sounds Like a Cave
Meeting rooms pass RT60 tests at 500Hz and still sound terrible. The culprit is 125Hz bass reverberation — standard acoustic foam panels have α ≈ 0.05 at 125Hz and do almost nothing. Here is the calculation that reveals the problem and the bass trap specification that solves it.
What Is STI (Speech Transmission Index) — Can People Actually Understand Speech in Your Room?
STI measures how much a room degrades speech from source to listener, on a scale from 0 (unintelligible) to 1 (perfect). An STI below 0.50 means one in four words is lost. Here is how STI works, what scores you need, and why reverberation time alone is not enough.