Odeon Acoustic Simulation

Architectural Design had evolved dramatically over hundreds of years, affecting the interior design including shapes and design concepts of halls. Not only different shapes of halls directly affect how the sound behaves within them, the finishing materials used have significant effect on the acoustics too. The combination of these two main factors will not only result in various interior designs, but endless and complicated variations of how the hall sounds.

From shoebox design to vineyard seating arrangements, hall designers and acousticians had been rubbing shoulders in coming out with the best in both fields, aesthetic design and acoustics. To keep this symbiotic working culture alive and running in our country, ISTIQ takes part by acquiring an internationally renowned Acoustical Simulation Software, ODEON.

With ODEON, ISTIQ engineers are able to make sure that even complicated hall design proposed by Architects and venue owners alike, will not result in poor acoustics. ODEON users can in fact see how the sound behave in a particular hall, and listen to it before the physical construction takes place; Thanks to ODEON™s powerful room impulse response convolution technology.

Reverberation Measurement RT60

Based on International Standards, ISTIQ is able to cater on-site acoustical measurements. Particularly in Architectural Acoustics, most popular tests are as the followings:

1. Reverberation Time RT60 - a parameter showing how reverberant a room is, i.e. the time taken for a sound level to reduce by 60dB in second (s). It indicates the general acoustical quality of a room that affects speech intelligibility, liveliness, loudness, etc. RT60 is classified in a range of preferred values depending on the room’s application, while not being necessarily better with lower value.

1. Transmission Lost TL - a parameter showing how isolated a noise source is in a room, with its adjacent spaces. Generally, higher TL value indicating higher soundproofing quality of a system, is better.

ISTIQ offers the service of physical measurements as listed, a report showing comparison before and after certain renovations, and even professional proposal should an existing system needs enhancements.

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