The home cinema design podcast

Elite cinema designer Ben Goff - entered the CEDIA awards twice and won four, CEDIA project judge, course author and instructor, key member of CEDIA standards, designer of bonkers private cinemas > £1m, and our pal / mentor / inspiration, talks about stuff.You should listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CEDIA. The industry association for smart home professionals.Particularly, we're focusing on all the bits *we* really like - the education and training, CPD outreach, and the various industry standards and RPs.Our friend Peter Aylett has been deeply involved with all of it - he was chair of RP22, served five years as Standards chair, CEDIA fellow, board member, the CPD trainer for EMEA over many years, and loads more besides. So he came on to talk to us about it all, plus some teasers about all the amazing education happening at ISE this year, including a one-day RP32 audio measurement workshop on Monday 2nd Feb.We're doing all of it, what about you? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's been a while since we talked about bass, and in the meantime we've learned some things.Particularly...How to place your subs for best resultsActive Acoustics (Trinnov Waveforming and DIRAC ART)Using digital EQ and limiters to achieve better bass extensionInfra-bass - how it's done and what it doesUpdates on our Level 2 training coursePlus the usual swearing and nonsense. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tom's now on the 3rd iteration of his cinema demo room, at his facility near Stafford.. This one is pretty special, so this episode Owen interviewed Tom to tell us what he's done. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We went all the way to Barçelona, just to build a million pound cinema (OK, we helped a bit), with Trinnov, Officina Acustica, Perlisten and others, and we had a blast.We also took some training and went round the show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Although we're a podcast we also run an introductory calibration course for our industry friends using RoomEQ Wizard software.This time we're joined by Tom Lanham (Lano), lead engineer at Wall of Sound, who was one of our first course attendees and a bit of a star pupil. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

No particular theme for this episode - we accidentally took a few weeks off with our day jobs so we thought we'd ramble a bit and get caught up! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The RP22 performance targets cover timbre (timber if you're Northern), dynamics and spatial resolution. Spatial resolution has the longest set of metrics - there's 11 of them. This time out we go though and explain the spatial metrics in a bit more detail, what they're for and how they make your cinema better. Less sweary than some episodes - we're trying to behave properly. Ish. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This time, emotional hot-head Owen and calm, relaxed Tom discuss the emotional impact of a cinema system. We know that a better engineered system creates a deeper emotional connection with the audience, but why is that? Come with us on the hero's journey and find out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This time out we look at the second group of RP22 metrics - timbre. The dictionary defines timbre as 'the characteristic quality of a sound, independent of pitch and loudness, from which its source or manner of production can be inferred.'Making sure the sound from every speaker is consistent, that every speaker tracks the target curve faithfully, and that the whole system has deep enough bass extension, is a tough engineering challenge. As Tom says, you won't hit these numbers by accident. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.