June 23, 1999- ASC's President, Arthur Noxon, was recently interviewed by Lisa Montgomery, editor of Electronic House magazine. She lives in South Bend, Indiana, and is preparing an article on 'Serenity Rooms'. This is a room in the house dedicated to quiet peace, a welcome change to our normally busy and noisy lifestyle. The room is suitable for meditation or relaxing. Noxon and Montgomery talked about soundproofing the room from external noise, and sound conditioning the room for internal noise.
Some people actually add on , while others remodel to achieve their serenity room.
Curiously, designing and building the serenity room is very similar to the soundproofing and sound management processes used in recording studios and audio listening rooms. Hence, the interview with us here. Even more interesting is that the process of critical listening is not unlike meditation. It's fascinating that seemingly opposite fields of human endeavor have blended into one. Stand smooths out subwoofer response curve in rooms by adding acoustic resistance whenever the woofer couples to the resonant modes.