ESSENTIAL CASE STUDY: SOUND SENSE
SMILES ALL ROUND WITH HIGH PERFORMANCE HOME CINEMA Sound Sense delivers top performing cinema as a retreat from a busy dental practice; from molars to movies! In densely populated areas of India, it is common to see multi-use buildings that house both businesses and residences. Sound Sense - an award-winning integration firm in Surat, has one of India’s most elite showrooms and is familiar with working in this type of structure. Sound Sense’s state-of-the-art showroom displays living and office space possibilities to meet virtually any audio, video and control need, which is then customised for each client to meet their unique requirements and budget. A local dental surgeon reached out to Sound Sense after recently completing construction of a four-story home/business (with his dental clinic located on the ground floor and residence situated on the upper three floors). He had a twofold vision for the uppermost floor – to provide a
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place to retreat from the long hours of the work week and to provide a place to get together with family and friends on evenings, weekends and special occasions. The client envisioned a high-end home cinema, yet they only had a room sized just under 25’ x 19’ to work within. “Our client wanted a larger-than-life movie experience whose vibrancy was to remain isolated from the dental clinic below,” says Ankur Bhatt, founder and director of Sound Sense. “The client requested a ‘monster-sized’ screen and a high-end audio video calibrated system that well exceeded the limited budget that remained after the other construction expenses. We were able to carefully select components that allowed us to fulfill his vision while staying within the allocated budget.”
Ankur adds, “The main challenge was to meet the large seating requirement in such a limited space. After assessing the room size, screen size, speaker placement, seating needs and acoustics, we designed five rows of seating for 33 people using six or seven seats per row in non-reclining chairs. The six-seat rows were designed to accommodate the pillars on each side of the room. “We used a discrete speaker setup with the surrounds placed in the centre of rows one, two, three and four to achieve the correct phase alignment for these rows. Diffuser panels were used in the back half of the room to add spaciousness to the sound and reduce the localisation of the surround and rear speakers.
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