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Case file
Acoustic design and treatment for cinemas, auditoriums, recording studios, places of worship and conference halls — engineered absorbers, diffusers, bass traps and ceiling clouds.
/ The discipline, in detail
How we approach acoustic solutions.
Most premium rooms are hostile to their own intent. Polished stone, sheet glass, double-height volumes — every surface a hard reflector — and a brief that asks for both intelligibility and intimacy. Treatment is the quiet engineering that lets the room serve the people in it. Done well, you don't notice it; you only notice that the conversation across the dinner table is no longer a struggle and the espresso machine isn't dominating the morning room.
We work backwards from a measurable target — RT60 by frequency band, STI in every seat, clarity index for music programme — and prescribe the actual coverage of absorbers, diffusers, bass traps and ceiling clouds the target requires. Where the brief warrants, we model the space in EASE or CATT-Acoustic before specifying, so the panel count is engineered rather than guessed.
Material selection is a coordination conversation with the interior designer, not a separate transaction. Fabric-wrapped panels that read as upholstery, slatted timber that reads as joinery, micro-perforated metal that reads as architecture — the treatment reads as the building rather than as a retrofit applied to it.
On record
Every acoustic solutions engagement is documented end-to-end — design, programming, commissioning, calibration — and handed over with the files our successors would need if we were never to return.
/ Where we deploy this
Active across 5 sectors.
Acoustic Solutions is rarely a standalone brief — it sits inside a wider sector practice with its own codes, expectations and operating rhythm.
/ Sister services
The rest of av.
A serious brief usually crosses two or three of these. Read across the discipline — we deliver them as one contract.
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Home Theatre
Reference cinema, in your living room.
Custom-engineered private cinemas — projector, processor, screen, seating and acoustics designed to a single sweet-spot, certified to THX or Dolby Atmos.0 - 02
Multi-Room Audio
One song. Every room. Or six different ones.
Whole-home audio on Yamaha, Sonance and BluOS — invisible in-ceiling speakers, hidden subs, room-corrected and zone-routed.1 - 04
Video Walls
Pixels at the scale of architecture.
Direct-view LED, fine-pitch LCD and rear-projection video walls for command centres, lobbies, broadcast studios, control rooms and event venues.2 - 05
Smart Classrooms
Every student. Every word. Every time.
Interactive flat-panels, lecture-capture, voice-lift and learning-management integrations — engineered to NCERT, NEP-2020 and university lab specifications.3 - 06
LED Panels & Projectors
The right pixels for the room.
Direct-view LED, OLED, microLED and laser projection — selected to the room's lux, throw, sightline and content.4 - 07
Auditoriums & Boardrooms
Rooms that begin on time.
Turnkey auditorium, boardroom, training-room and conference-room AV — display, audio, control, video-conferencing and lighting integrated to a single touch.5 - 08
Digital Conferencing & Voting Systems
Sittings, voting, interpretation — one system, every seat.
Parliamentary-grade digital conferencing for legislative chambers, council halls and corporate boardrooms — mic management, electronic voting, 8-channel interpretation, camera control and chamber recording, integrated through Bosch DCN, Dicentis and Integrus.6 - 09
Recording Studios & Nightlife
Rooms tuned to the recording.
Recording studio design, post-production suites, broadcast booths and nightlife audio — acoustic isolation, monitoring, console integration and DJ infrastructure.7 - 10
Stage Lighting
Light that performs.
Theatre, concert, event and place-of-worship stage lighting — moving heads, washes, profiles, pixel-mapped LED and DMX/Art-Net control.8 - 11
Conference Room AV
Single-touch join. Every meeting.
Microsoft Teams Rooms, Zoom Rooms and Cisco Webex-certified meeting rooms, with auto-tracking cameras, ceiling-array microphones and one-touch room controllers.9 - 12
Restaurant, Bar & Nightclub AV
The room that the night needs.
Hospitality venue AV — JBL Professional, K-array and Kgear audio with stage lighting, façade scenes, DJ booth integration and acoustic isolation from neighbouring premises.10
/ Where this system has been deployed
Acoustic Solutions on the ground.
The reference projects below carry a acoustic solutions layer engineered as part of an integrated stack. Each case study walks through the engineering challenges that were solved, the standards the work was held to, and the operational outcome on the day-two team.
/ Integration with
How acoustic solutions talks to the rest.
A serious deployment of this system rarely operates in isolation. The disciplines below most commonly share its cabling pathways, its controller logic, and its cause-and-effect matrix.
Auditoriums & Boardrooms
Rooms that begin on time.
Turnkey auditorium, boardroom, training-room and conference-room AV — display, audio, control, video-conferencing and lighting integrated to a single touch.Home Theatre
Reference cinema, in your living room.
Custom-engineered private cinemas — projector, processor, screen, seating and acoustics designed to a single sweet-spot, certified to THX or Dolby Atmos.Professional Audio & PA Systems
Intelligible, every seat in the house.
Public address, voice-evacuation and concert-grade audio for auditoriums, places of worship, stadia, transit hubs and event venues.
/ Read deeper
The engineering, in long form.
Each article below goes deeper than this service page can — a full walk-through of the engineering decisions, written by the team that delivers this work.
- AV · 11 min
Why fluid acoustic treatment beats panel-only above 800 seats
Above 800 seats, panel-only acoustic treatment hits a wall — diffraction, low-frequency build-up and audience absorption variation make the room misbehave. Fluid acoustic treatment — variable-density absorption, tuned bass-traps and adaptive diffusion — delivers measurably better STI and intelligibility scores. The position we take and why.
Read article - AV · 14 min
Spec'ing a residential 9.1.6 cinema in 2026 — the order of operations
A reference 9.1.6 Atmos cinema in 2026 is not a list of components — it is a sequence of decisions. Get the sequence right and the room sounds the way you imagined; get it wrong and the room reads as a ₹2 crore living room with surround speakers. The order of operations we follow on every reference cinema we commission.
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/ Frequently asked
Acoustic Solutions — what buyers ask first.
When should I bring an acoustician into my project?
Bring an acoustician in before plaster — treatment is dramatically more effective and less visible when integrated during the carcass and ceiling-grid stage. Treatment is dramatically more effective and less visible when integrated during the carcass and ceiling-grid stage. Retrofit is always possible but the acoustic outcome and the visual integration are both compromised.
Is acoustic treatment expensive?
Acoustic treatment costs 8–12% of total project for a residential cinema and 4–6% for a boardroom — the cost of not treating is paid in every meeting thereafter. A residential cinema typically allocates 8–12% of the total project to acoustic isolation and treatment. A boardroom needs perhaps 4–6%. The cost of *not* treating is paid in every meeting, every film and every dinner thereafter.
Do I really need acoustic treatment in my room?
Yes — rooms with stone floors, glass walls or ceiling height above 3.5 m need acoustic treatment; untreated rooms exhaust occupants in 30 minutes regardless of speaker quality. Rooms with stone or marble floors, glass walls, ceiling height above 3.5m, hard parallel surfaces — yes. Untreated rooms exhaust occupants by minute thirty regardless of how good the speakers are. RT60 above 0.8s in a meeting room is a serious productivity tax.
How do you measure RT60, STI and clarity in a room?
Acoustic measurement uses a calibrated microphone, a controlled impulse source and analysis in REW, Smaart or EASE — reporting RT60 by octave band, STI scores and recommended absorber/diffuser layout. A calibrated measurement microphone and a controlled-source impulse — typically a balloon pop, starter pistol or swept-sine through a reference loudspeaker. The room's response is captured at multiple seat positions and analysed in REW, Smaart or EASE. The report includes RT60 by octave band, STI scores and the recommended absorber/diffuser layout.
Will acoustic treatment look like a recording studio?
No — premium acoustic treatment is engineered to disappear. Fabric-wrapped wall absorbers in deep emerald or walnut tones, ceiling clouds finished to match the architectural palette, perforated-wood diffusers integrated into the joinery. Done properly the room reads as architecture, not as engineering.
What's the cost of acoustic treatment for a typical room?
Acoustic treatment costs ₹2.5–4.5 lakh for a 200 sqft boardroom, ₹6–12 lakh for a private cinema and 6–12% of total room cost for an auditorium. ₹2.5–4.5 lakh for a 200 sqft boardroom, including absorbers, diffusers, fabric and installation. For a private cinema, ₹6–12 lakh including bass traps, ceiling clouds and decoupled walls. For an auditorium, 6–12% of total room cost. The figure is significant but it is decisive of the result.
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