Design of a Home Cinema Room

Insulation

"It’s important to understand the difference between acoustic treatment and insulation: acoustic treatment allows you to optimise your system, while insulation is to avoid disturbance for your neighbours. It’s thus quite possible to have a room which is well insulated and has dreadful sound. It’s also possible to have a well optimised room which is a nightmare for the neighbours.

This precision being made, it should be said that insulation of a room is quite complicated, requiring specialist knowledge, and it’s also very expensive. Sound is a vicious thing, able to squeeze through the tiniest non-insulated square centimetre in a room. Several solutions exist for phonic insulation: they can be quite efficient in the case of insulation of a room for normal living, but are not really appropriate for containing as many decibels as a Home Cinema installation is capable of pumping out.

Either you decide to correctly insulate one room, calling on construction professionals, in order to build what is commonly called a "Box in a Box", or the expense that you go to in insulating your rooms for a few decibels with the use of "Joe Public" products might simply be a waste of cash. "

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