Residential

High ceilings, large window areas, hard floor surfaces and open plans of modern luxury homes and condominiums pose major acoustical challenges. Excessive reverberation times and early reflections force background sounds into the auditory foreground, disturbing what otherwise would be tranquil and relaxed settings. Over the din of competing conversations guests may find it difficult to carry on relaxed conversations. Hearing-impaired guests can become especially frustrated. high-end AV systems, which often share such spaces, will fail to reach anywhere near their potential.

Selection and placement of acoustical features to mitigate these issues can be very challenging, as the primary design driver is aesthetic. With its world-class Odeon simulation tools, Aural-Environments offers interior designers and architects and their clients the unique ability to audition their proposed acoustical designs in realistic immersive sound simulations.  Immersive auralization of the acoustic environment directly parallels a project’s 3D visualization, therein offering both greater technical confidence, and owner involvement.

Our Odeon simulation suite has been generally deployed on large-scale projects such as concert halls, auditoria, and meeting spaces. However Aural-Environments has streamlined the residential capture process with rapid LIDAR scanning, thereby focusing resources towards the minimization of acoustical treatment visual impacts, and project costs. Typical scenarios investigated are:

• Entertainment events → speech clarity and ease of conversation

• Auxiliary area noise spillovers →sound leakage levels and spectrum

• AV system listening →music and speech clarity

Both numerical and subjective evaluations are provided for, including binaural audio files for realistic immersive headphone listening. To see this process at work please select ‘Client Briefing.’