Posted by jdbsound on May 25, 2012
Kingston Road United Church.

Location: Kingston Road, Toronto, Ontario Canada
Consulting Date March 2008
Completion Date by Church members – October 2008
Sound System installed by Westbury Sound – December 2008
- Seating capacity 500+
- Ceiling over 40 ft high
- Over 120 Cardboard Tubes custom made order and placed around the room in 8″ 12″ and 16″ half rounds.
- Between 120 to 800 hertz removed 18 to 22dB of excess energy.
- This change allowed a single speaker system to cover a whole room 134 ft long.
- Throw distances from speakers to back wall, 98 ft.
- Contractor who installed the system was surprised at how well this sound system worked and how much the room changed.
- Contractor suggested delayed speakers before the acoustical treatment was done.
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Posted by jdbsound on May 22, 2012
Is a New Church or existing Church complete after it opens for worship or after it has the proper acoustics installed?
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Posted by jdbsound on May 22, 2012
Walls are amplifiers of sound.
Outdoors – when you double the energy with amplifiers or speakers the sound levels increases 3dB.
Indoors – when you double the energy with amplifiers or speakers the sound level of certain frequencies can increase up to 9dB or cancel the sound 100%.
Example Below:

Before acoustical treatment, there would be 1dB loss at 10 ft and 2dB loss at 40 ft. without the sound system.
After acoustical treatment, there is 4dB loss at 10ft and 8dB loss at 40 ft. without the sound system. Also, intelligibility changed from 79% at 40 ft to 92% after acoustical changes. When you add the sound system the coverage with +/-3dB

This was in the middle of the acoustical transformation
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