BoxTech Audio Systems
Eighteen articles on sound and picture
Halls, theatres, classrooms, corporate, radio, television, cinema, and transport.
Sound quality in the hallA hall is judged by whether the last seat hears the sentence.Picture and sound in theatersThe audience hears the line and sees the face in the same moment.
Sound in classroomsA lesson is lost when the back row cannot hear the teacher.
Corporate meeting roomsA boardroom has to work the first time, with people who are not engineers.
Convention centersRooms combine in the morning and split at night.
Government hallsOfficial speech has to be heard, and the system has to be supported for years.
Healthcare soundPaging must be understood. The building should stay calm.
University hallsA lecture hall and a performance hall share a campus, not a specification.Primary and secondary schoolsSpeech in rooms that were not drawn for sound.
Radio studiosA broadcast does not get a second take.
Television studiosPicture and sound are one job.
Cinema soundThe soundtrack has to reach every seat the same way.
Recording roomsMicrophones and monitors come before any audience system.
Esports arenasCommentary, a crowd, and screens that own the room.
Transport hallsA voice has to cut a noisy concourse.
Tunnels and alarmsVoice and alarm, over distance, in a hard room.
Houses of worshipSpeech first. Recitation and the sermon have to reach the last row.
Major projects and arenasLarge rooms fail in public. The specification has to be drawn before the steel is up.