Home Cinema Installations and Noise Transmission Through Doors

The reference level about a soundtrack is 105db and 115db for the LFE channel. Most people would find these levels quite high, but not hard to listen to, in a correctly designed home cinema room.

A problem occurs though, when we face the challenge of keeping regular alarm inside the cinema room. In household installation, quite often we find bedrooms and other living areas to be right next on the home cinema environment. Special room construction techniques allow us to build a sufficient noise barrier, in order to reduce any sound transmission into the adjacent rooms.

However, doors have always been the weakest point, in type of attempt. The mass, damping and stiffness of the Home Theater Installation Hertfordshire cinema door will determine its resistance towards passage of any sound waves. A door’s ability to lessen noise is given by its Sound transmission Class. This means, the higher within the Class the better the efficiency.

One more problem arises though; Sound waves can travel through any opening with very little impairment. And to top it off, a tiny hole in a barrier would transmit nearly as much sound for a much larger golf hole. This acoustic property of sound could be a big problem in your property cinema installation, where high quality construction is required. That’s the where acoustical gaskets come into have. A home cinema door, in order to be effective, the seals around the head, jamb and sill must be complete and air-tight.

In other words, the standard of of the acoustical gasket in a home cinema installation, would figure out how close the particular sound performance of the door, can come to the published requirements. A hi-end home cinema design should take the information into consideration, to ensure a hi-end acoustical result.