Upgrading an old cinema hall for Dolby Atmos starts with the room, not the speakers. Dolby's own specification requires absorptive treatment around screen speakers and the side walls near them, and older auditoriums built for stereo or 5.1 sound rarely meet that already. Unidus Acoustics has seen this play out...
7 Factors That Decide What You Pay for Acoustic Panels for Multiplex Projects
The price of acoustic panels for multiplex projects depends on more than square footage. Material choice, fire rating, and finish customisation move the cost as much as area does. A gypsum tile and a fabric-wrapped polyester panel can carry the same NRC rating and still land at different price points....
Stone Wool vs Glass Wool: Which Works Better for Commercial Sound Insulation?
Stone wool and glass wool both show up on the same tender documents and supplier catalogues, often listed side by side with no explanation of which one actually suits the room in question. At Unidus Acoustics, this is one of the first questions architects ask when a project moves from...
6 Reasons Architects Specify Sound Deadening Wall Panels Over Standard Ones
A boardroom can look completely finished and still sound half-done. The walls are painted, the joinery is in, and every voice in the room still carries a faint echo. On a video call, it sounds like the meeting is happening in a stairwell. That gap usually comes down to the...
Specifying Soundproof Insulation Boards for Commercial Walls and Ceilings
"Soundproof insulation board" gets used for two different jobs on the market, and that overlap is usually what turns into a call to site months after handover. The term covers absorbing sound inside a room and blocking it from reaching the next one, and a specification built on the wrong...
How Soundproof Fabric Is Used in Commercial Installations
Soundproof fabric doesn’t get much attention in specification documents. It usually shows up as a colour selection, and then the conversation moves on to NRC ratings and mounting heights. But the fabric in a fabric-wrapped acoustic panel, or in a fabric-faced ceiling system, is doing something specific, and getting it...