01 / Capability · Audio Visual Systems

Room Acoustics

Acoustic treatment planned with the interior — because the room decides what the system can sound like.

Acoustic treatment for cinemas, boardrooms, majlis, hospitality and recording spaces.

Interior with soft finishes and surfaces that determine how a room sounds

02 / The brief

Even the finest audio equipment cannot compensate for a room that is fighting it. Acoustic treatment — absorption, diffusion, materials and geometry — is what allows AV electronics to perform the way they are meant to.

Zentrum coordinates room acoustics with the interior designer and finishes so treatment supports both the sound and the look of the space.

Part of Audio Visual Systems.

03 / Signal and space

From source to the room itself.

Acoustic treatment is a set of decisions that belong inside the interior brief — surfaces, materials, geometry and joinery. Bringing acoustics into the interior coordination early is what allows treatment to disappear into the design.

  1. 01 /

    Sources

    Streaming, broadcast, laptops, media servers and room devices, kept in a rack rather than on show.

    • Streaming
    • Laptops
    • Media
  2. 02 /

    Rack and processing

    Amplification, switching, processing and control in a ventilated, serviceable equipment position.

  3. 03 /

    Distribution

    Cabling and network paths carrying audio and video to each zone with the bandwidth the format needs.

    • Cabling
    • Network
  4. 04 /

    Zones

    Rooms and areas treated individually — a cinema, a lounge, a meeting room and a terrace are different problems.

    • Interior
    • Meeting
    • Outdoor
  5. 05 /

    Room treatment

    Speaker positions, screen geometry, sightlines and acoustic detail resolved with the interior design.

  6. 06 /

    Control

    One way to operate the room that a guest, a resident or a meeting host can use without being taught.

Outcome /

The equipment disappears; the experience does not.

Sound and image belong to the architecture rather than sitting on top of it.

Conceptual audio visual diagram: sources feed a rack holding processing and amplification, distribution carries signal to individual zones, room treatment resolves speaker and screen positions with the interior, and one control surface operates the result.

04 / Design principles

What makes the room work.

  • Treatment planning

    Absorption, diffusion and bass management planned against the room and its use.

  • Material coordination

    Finishes and materials selected with acoustic performance in mind.

  • Geometry

    Angles, splays and boundaries considered as part of the room design.

  • Speaker and seating placement

    Placement optimised against the treated room, not a generic reference.

  • Measurement

    Post-treatment measurement to confirm the space performs as intended.

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Balancing intelligibility with reverberation for the room's use

02 /

Materials that survive UAE humidity and cleaning cycles

03 /

Design coordination with the interior designer

05 / Where it is used

What a room does to sound.

Private residences

Villas and apartments where the technology has to sit inside the interior rather than beside it.

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Workplaces and headquarters

Offices where the systems are judged on how little attention they need day to day.

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Also delivered in: Home theatres and screening rooms · Music and listening rooms · Boardrooms and executive meeting rooms · Hospitality venues.

06 / Coordination and delivery

How the package runs.

  1. 01 /Understand what the room is meant to do — screen, listen, present, meet.
  2. 02 /Plan treatment, materials and geometry against that intent.
  3. 03 /Coordinate with the interior designer on finishes and joinery.
  4. 04 /Install, measure and refine treatment against the AV design.
  5. 05 /Hand over a room the electronics can actually perform inside.
  • 01Modal analysis and measurement-driven design
  • 02Bass traps, broadband absorbers and diffusers
  • 03Architect-friendly finishes — fabric, wood, stone
  • 04Post-install verification with calibrated measurement
Turnkey delivery →Assessment and support for existing systems →

07 / Related systems

What this depends on.

Audio Visual Systems
Treatment is what allows the AV systems in the room to perform.
Connected Communication
Meeting-room acoustics directly affect voice pickup and intelligibility.
Building Automation
Motorised shading can support acoustic and daylight decisions together.
Data & IT Infrastructure
Treated rooms are the endpoint of AV and communication that ride the network.

Technology ecosystem /

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Next step /

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