- 30,000 Projects
- Over 30 million square feet installed
- QuietRock has been the choice of top theater designers since 2003.
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Home Theaters
The requirements for home theater construction are significant. Theater rooms can produce peaks of 110dB or more, which adjacent rooms ideally should be dead quiet. This exceeds what standard construction techniques can deliver, and requires new technologies to satisfy critical customers. Quiet Solution produces advanced building materials to meet the demands of world-class home theaters and produces the only THX certified soundproofing solution in the world (see QuietRock 545THX), tested to STC 80 (with an astounding 50dB of isolation at 63Hz).
Achieving high STC ratings for walls and ceilings had traditionally been costly and unreliable.
Quiet Solution offers home theater designer/
dealer/installer professionals and enthusiasts a complete line of high-performance products to soundproof walls and ceilings, from QuietRock® to QuietWood® to QuietGlue®. The installation can be easily done either at time of new construction or as a rehab project in your existing room.
Home theater designer/installers used to be limited to resilient channels, hats and clips or mass loaded vinyl (see white paper with actual test results) to try to achieve STC values in the mid 40’s, with low frequency loss factors of less than 20dB. Some of these techniques are famous for failing. Acoustical engineers estimate failure rates of 50%-90% (failure to achieve desired STC value).
Generally, the higher the dB isolation across all frequencies, the better your home theater environment will be for those inside and outside the theater. Quiet Solution offers the highest tested STC walls in the world, with products ranging from the entry level QuietRock 510 ($39.95/panel in some markets) to the affordable score/snap QuietRock 525 to the THX certified QuietRock 545THX. And for the DIY marketplace, QuietGlue® offers the “lowest cost of materials” option with the best performance of any viscoelastic polymer on the market today.
With 20 million square feet installed in some 20,000 projects, you can’t go wrong choosing Quiet brand products.
Commercial Theaters
The finest theaters in the world today use QuietRock 545 THX Certified soundproof drywall panels. Do you?
With the advent of modern digital soundtracks and high performance sound reproduction technology, movies have gotten much louder.
This phenomenon has created quite a dilemma in some theaters. Often, the people watching the latest romantic comedy can hear the special effects bonanza being shown in the next theater over. As we all know, that can severely limit the enjoyment of the movie theater experience.
THX, the industry leading movie theater sound company, understand this problem and authored a paper stating the recommended levels of noise reduction for theater walls. The recommendations were based on a statistical analysis of film sound tracks and the background noise common in a movie theater.
Most movie theater designers meet these requirements by using lots of mass, such as poured concrete walls. Then they add a separate row of studs of each side with at least two layers of drywall. While this design works, it is very expensive and takes a lot of time to build.
Modern engineered damped drywall panels allow for a much easier design. Quiet Solution designed and tested walls using its THX certified sound isolation panels to meet those tough requirements. Not only did our solution meet THX’s recommendations but it also proved to significantly outperform them.
The wall used Quiet Solution’s THX certified QuietRock 545THX panels, which hang just like standard drywall. Therefore, construction can go much faster than the standard poured concrete method. Faster construction means less labor and less money needed to build a new theater.
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