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REBalancing Frequency & Time Response
Acoustic optimization isn’t about achieving a perfectly flat frequency response—it’s about balance.
Through modeling, modal peaks can be significantly reduced while preserving a natural response curve. Above the Schroeder frequency, this balance becomes especially critical, as absorption behaves very differently across upper bass, lower midrange, and high frequencies.
If treatments are not properly modeled, rooms often become overly absorptive at higher frequencies while remaining uncontrolled in the lower midrange—one of the main reasons absorptive rooms are perceived as “dead” or unnatural.
Redi Acoustics addresses this by simulating broadband treatments designed to achieve a consistent decay time across frequencies. The goal is uniform sound decay—so reflections at 3 kHz fade at roughly the same rate as those at 300 Hz or 1 kHz—resulting in clarity, articulation, and tonal balance.
This excerpt is part of The Absolute Sound’s Building / Tuning Listening Rooms: Audio Set-Up Series — Tour and Learn.
Shared with permission.
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