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5 Room Acoustic Mistakes to Avoid

When it comes to room acoustics, there are many adjustments that can be made to achieve optimum results. In this article, we use 5 typical room acoustic sins to show where you can begin the acoustic optimization of your home studio or hi-fi room before worrying your head about what acoustic modules to get.

Optimising the Acoustics in the DE-CIX Facility

DE-CIX operates one of the world’s largest internet exchanges in Frankfurt, Germany and in such a place, a quiet working environment is essential for concentrated work. A large office space with a big staff and lots of machinery, however, often creates a challenging acoustic situation. In this blog post, we show you how we improved the room acoustics in the new DE-CIX premises.

How To Measure Room Acoustics With Room EQ Wizard

Good room acoustics, whether in a control room, recording room or home studio, are crucial to any professional audio recording or music production. Whether you are a musician, sound engineer or podcaster, room acoustics play an important role in achieving optimal results. A poorly treated room can lead to unwanted sound colouration, resonance and inaccurate […]

Acoustic Curtains for Better Room Acoustics and Less Noise?

In 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 […]

Perfect Studio Room Acoustics for AKA AKA

In this video you can see what Holger and Hannes from AKA AKA think about their new studio, planned and equipped with HOFA-Akustik.

Acoustic optimization of living spaces for a better quality of living

Regardless of whether it is a new or old building – acoustic problems occur in almost all untreated rooms. An excessively long reverberation time can drastically reduce the feel-good factor within your own four walls. The consequences are lots of reflections, long reverberation tails, unpleasant booming and poor speech intelligibility. These problems often only become […]

The Story Behind HOFA-Akustik

I 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. The role of a salt […]

A Lot of Noise and Little Focus in the Office? This Is How You Improve Your Room Acoustics!

It’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 […]

Climate-friendly acoustics made by HOFA

Sustainability is becoming increasingly more important for us in the development of HOFA acoustic modules. New materials must not only be exceptionally effective from an acoustic point of view, but also uncompromisingly sustainable if they are to be used in our acoustic modules. The HOFA PureAkust acoustic sails, for example, are made of 70% recycled […]

Room Acoustics – Live End Dead End Explained

Whether 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 […]