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Rives Audio is a company founded on providing acoustical
engineering and acoustical design solutions for home listening room acoustics and
home theater room design, including home theater acoustics and home theater sound
proofing. Many clients have hi-end stereo or home theater equipment but the rooms
suffer from poor sound. The reason is the rooms were never designed acoustically.
Quite often they were designed for aesthetics alone. At Rives Audio we can design
in aesthetics and acoustics at the same time. Acoustical treatment really has no
inherent visual design, rather it can become anything you want. In designing a room
clients must consider aesthetics, sonic benefit, and budget. These three components
work in a balance to achieve the best custom solution for each client. No two clients
are the same, and thus no two rooms are the same. Rives Audio works on a custom
basis ONLY. There are no pre-designed solutions. Rives Audio looks at the significance
of all aspects of the audio performance, from the bass and room mode performance
to the diffusion within the midrange spectrum and absorption in the high frequency
spectrum. All are significant and all must work together in harmony to achieve sonic
bliss. For the bass Rives examines the room mode distribution or designs a room
with appropriate room mode distribution. Some existing rooms have poor room mode
distribution and thus need electrical correction from the PARC (parametric adaptive
room compensation). Basically the PARC is a 3 band parametric equalizer (parametric
eq) designed to get rid of room modes and compensate for bass peaks. Rives Audio
measures rooms acoustically with sophisticated audio software tools. All Rives dealers
have the Rives Audio professional test kit for acoustic sound measurement. This
kit includes extremely accurate calibrated microphones as well as state of the art
software such as ETF and BARE. For the end user Rives provides more economical means
of measuring the acoustical performance of the room starting with the Rives Audio
Test CD (which is specifically calibrated for the Radio Shack sound meter), including
Mapleshade Recordings, to the standard test kit. Rives Audio is committed to providing
cost effective solutions for the audiophile and home audio enthusiast. The room
is the invisible component and often the most significant. When you want the best
listening room or home theater design, you need not go further than Rives Audio.
Acoustical Engineering for the Home Environment.
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