HOFA-Akustik Blog
Acoustic Curtains for Better Room Acoustics and Less Noise?
Nicolas Köhler2023-07-27T17:57:28+02:00In most rooms there are two types of interfering noise. One is the sound that comes from outside and the other is the unpleasant reverberation that occurs when rooms are relatively empty and have many sound-reflecting surfaces. This is where acoustic curtains can help to reduce noise and improve the acoustics of the room. But how do acoustic curtains work and what should you look for when choosing an acoustic curtain? Find out more in this blog post. Noise reduction Acoustic curtains...
Perfect Studio Room Acoustics for AKA AKA
Moritz Meier2023-06-20T16:08:19+02:00At HOFA-Akustik, we have a wide range of activities and can help our customers with our expertise by offering individual advice, measurements, and planning. Rooms differ and clients have special wishes, individual requirements, and a wide variety of uses. This year, we received a request from Holger and Hannes, better known by their alias AKA AKA. They have been travelling the globe as DJs for years, entertaining electronic music lovers with their productions. After moving to a new studio, the guys...
HOFA Is Climate Neutral
Jan Bönisch2021-11-12T15:59:32+01:00What does climate neutrality mean at HOFA-Akustik? Since January 2021, HOFA is a certified climate neutral company, including all products and services. Only a few companies, now including HOFA, have taken this elaborate step. Working environmentally responsible has always been an important part of our corporate culture – so we decided to have our climate footprint compiled annually. This allows us to optimise our CO2 emissions in a quantifiable way and to compensate for unavoidable emissions. Compensating means that all CO2 emissions...
The Story Behind HOFA-Akustik
Jochen Sachse2021-11-09T09:55:28+01:00I founded our room acoustics division, HOFA-Akustik, in 2007. In this article, I want to tell you the story of how we became a manufacturer of diffusers, absorbers, frames, bass traps, acoustic curtains, dividers and wall & ceiling sails to optimize the acoustics of your studio, office or living space. A visit to a large underground hall in the salt mine of Bad Friedrichshall in Southern Germany gave me the idea of making acoustic modules. The hall, which lies almost 200...
A Lot of Noise and Little Focus in the Office? This Is How You Improve Your Room Acoustics!
Moritz Meier2021-10-06T12:20:24+02:00It's never quiet in the office because it is filled with things that constantly emit noise. Starting with technical devices such as computers, printers, and the coffee machine, through ringing telephones and keyboard noises, to colleagues talking to each other. Poor ability to focus, reduced performance, as well as a high stress level are just some of the various negative consequences that can be traced back to a too high noise level in the office. By optimizing the room acoustics, you...
Room Acoustics – Live End Dead End Explained
Christoph Thiers2022-07-11T11:42:35+02:00Whether it's a home hi-fi room or a professional recording studio; the goal is to create a listening environment that’s as neutral as possible; this way, the sound you hear has as much in common with the signal source as possible. But how do you achieve this neutral sound reproduction? It is obvious that the loudspeaker itself plays a decisive role in this, so people are happy to spend some serious money on that behalf. However, what is often disregarded is...
What Are Room Modes and How to Treat Them?
Jan Bönisch2021-09-27T10:11:28+02:00The acoustics of a room have a great influence on the quality of the sound in home recording studios, home cinemas, hi-fi or control rooms. Even the excellent sound of professional studio monitors or hi-fi speakers can be severely impaired by missing or incorrect room acoustic treatments. Especially the bass range often sounds unbalanced and muddy in rooms without acoustic modules. A big problem in acoustically untreated rooms are the so-called room modes. This article explains what room modes are...
Why Diffusors Are Essential for Your Room Acoustics
Jan Bönisch2022-05-20T16:46:09+02:00Diffusors can be used effectively to optimise the acoustics of your room. Combined with absorbers, acoustic curtains, bass traps and acoustic sails, they make for good room acoustics and help to ensure that you can record, edit, and listen to music in your room at the highest level. But how does a diffusor work? And how do you use them correctly? What does “diffusion” mean?“ Diffusion is a form of reflection. Reflection means: Sound waves reach an object and are then reflected...
