The Home Theater Designer’s Secret Weapon for Better Sound Quality

Want to know a little secret? There’s more to achieving great sound quality in a home theater than just having high-quality speakers, subwoofers, and electronics. Many DIY home theater buffs have experienced a “huh?” moment when they fired up their expensive sound systems and were less than overwhelmed with what they heard.

The truth is that room layout, furnishings, ceiling height, materials, and other factors all influence the sound in a home theater. Sometimes, despite the equipment, it’s fatiguing sibilance from higher frequencies or overwhelming bass in one corner with almost none in another. One of the ways that professional home theater designers overcome these aural issues is with acoustic treatment.

At GHT Group, we work with Vicoustic for easy-to-implement acoustic treatment solutions that help tame room audio ills. Keep reading below to learn how we get your Marietta, GA home theater to fulfill its full home cinema promise.

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Hear the Soundtrack, Not the Room

You could design a perfect room, or at least one that's acoustically perfect, but it likely wouldn't make a very comfortable home cinema. Instead, acoustic issues can be fixed with acoustic panel solutions. For example, for bass issues, bass traps absorb low-frequency sounds, so you don't have an excess of bass in any one section of the room. Combining this treatment with room correction that tunes the audio system allows you to achieve the clean, powerful bass that integrates with other speakers for seamless sound. 

If you have many hard surfaces (walls are the biggest culprits), diffusers can help tame the reflections from those surfaces. With today’s multi-speaker arrays for Dolby Atmos surround sound, controlling reflections is more important than ever. Some of this can be done with smart choices in carpeting, wall finishes, and seating, but you don’t want your theater built around sound issues. Acoustic solutions provide that finishing touch to fix the sound and make it as natural as possible with different soundtracks. 

GHT and Vicoustic Make it Easy

We didn’t expect you to be taking notes in the previous paragraph to understand what bass traps and diffusers you'll need for your home theater. One key reason we work with Vicoustic is that they make it easy to provide the right solution for your space.

For a modest design fee, they’ll design an acoustic package that will work for your room, considering walls, seating arrangements, materials, and the number and locations of all the speakers, including subwoofers. Using sophisticated virtual reality modeling and software simulation, they can design the right package for your room, from basic to premium. And the best part? GHT Group manages it for you, and we install it along with the rest of your theater. All you need to do is press play when it’s done and enjoy the brilliant sound. 

Let our home theater designers wring the best sound quality from your home cinema. Visit our Marietta showroom, contact us here, or start a chat below to quickly connect with one of our experts. We look forward to working with you!