The Latest Generation of TubeTraps are IsoThermal
ASC's Patented IsoThermal TubeTrap follows tradition with our patented technology by delivering a fully adjustable diffuser with twice the bass absorption power as our original TubeTrap. Isothermal TubeTraps are modular, self-contained, broadband acoustic absorber/diffusers that improve the quality of music playback.
For decades Audiophiles & Recording Engineers have relied on the award-winning TubeTraps to get their room sound just right. Simply place them in the corners of your listening room or studio, and they go to work—giving you a clean musical bassline, along with added high frequency ambient sparkle.
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You keep your subwoofer's volume turned down and the crossover set low so it can “support” the bottom end without drowning out the music. But... you know you can do better.
The SubTrap absorbs excess bass (the bad, muddy bass) and decouples your subwoofer from the floor and elevates it out of the vertical mode stimulation zone. While increasing bass extension and punch, the SubTrap also gets rid of the dreaded "one note bass". Utilizing our patented Isothermal technology to boost the low bass absorption, the ASC SubTrap should be the foundation of your acoustic control plan.
It's much more than a simple vibration isolation stand... now you can "raise" your subwoofer to its full performance potential. Simply place your subwoofer atop the SubTrap. You'll instantly improve sonic detail, changing “fuzzy” playback into a richly detailed picture by lowering the running noise floor of the room in the all-important low bass range. From there, build your musical experience with rich harmonicsand a lush, and immersive soundstage. You'll hear musical bass lines you never knew existed!
Applications:
Two-channel HiFi Listening
Home Theater
Home Studio
Professional Recording/Mixing Studio
Live Sound Environments / RehearsalsSubTraps are Made to Order
ASC SoundPlanks are the perfect companion to ASC TubeTraps for complete control of the acoustics in your room. After the bass range is under control, the SoundPlanks further improve imaging and flutter echo without taking up any floor space.
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Applications:
High-End Listening Rooms
Recording/Mixing/Mastering Studios
Home Theaters
Offices
Conference Rooms
Retail Stores
Offices
Auditoriums
Gymnasiums
Band Rooms
Churches
Restaurants & Cafes
SoundPlanks are currently priced in quantities of 8
ASC's Half Round TubeTrap Isothermal model is a versatile evolution of the TubeTrap, allowing the same sound-busting power of the TubeTrap to be wall or ceiling mounted.
The unique and effective design of Half Round TubeTraps combine broadband absorption, diffusion, and directional control of sound reflections to reduce noise levels while maintaining room brightness and enhancing image resolution. This design approach results in compact andmodular units that can be placed in patterns on walls, ceilings, and in corners of any room.
QuarterRound TubeTraps (QRTTs) give you very high performance in a form-fitting package, custom designed to fit in the corner when space is at a premium. All QRTTs are built with our patented Isothermal technology, providing double the bass absorption as our Standard TubeTrap line. Like all ASC products, these are hand-built to order at our headquarters in Eugene, Oregon and are 100% USA made.
For pricing, select from the variant options below. Typical lead time is 3-4 weeks.
CinemaPanels reduce echo, reverberation, comb filtering, and flutter in your media room. Equally suited to Theater and HiFi use, CinemaPanels improve your room acoustics and decor at the same time! Pick up a 6-pack today for the following uses:
Improved dialogue clarity in Theater use
Improved imaging via sidewall reflection control in HiFi use
Reverberation control in band/rehearsal rooms - better distinction between instruments
Praise band stage noise control in churches - hear the PA instead of the blurry stage sound
Improved spaciousness via rear wall diffusion in Control/Mix room use
Flutter echo control in studio live room recording - calm but not dead
General reverberation control throughout the home - hear everything better!
Note: CinemaPanels can be purchased individually for $159/each.
The TowerTrap is a corner-loaded bass trap that was designed to resemble an architectural element rather than a typical cylindrical TubeTrap. It was developed specifically to address those customers looking for high-performance audio with a designer look that is so subtle, it nearly disappears.
The ASC AcousticSoffit is a true broadband acoustic device that may be all your room needs! Hear the benefits of TubeTraps in the wall/ceiling bi-corners and SoundPlanks on the walls without consuming any floor or wall space. Your friends and family may not even know you installed acoustic treatment!
The AcousticSoffit excels in these types of rooms, with these benefits:
Home Theaters - clear dialog, even bass levels, reduced harshness
Music/Jam Space - less midrange congestion, better instrument separation, less hearing fatigue
Recording/Mixing - more accurate bass levels, less comb filtering, cleaner signal-to-noise
Cost is determined per section, with typical full-perimeter installations costing $6,000 - $10,000, and single-wall from $2,000 - $3,000. See Pricing tab below for more details.
WallDamp is a component of ASC's IsoWall System, used to construct walls & ceilings that reduce sound transmission by 20dB or greater compared to standard interior walls.
Combining vibrational damping with classic resilient channel decoupling makes our wall system among the highest available using standard single-stud construction. Internally, the walls are tempered to move with the air pressure of bass frequencies. Where a rigid wall would shudder at high volumes (similar to the distortion in an overdriven speaker) and raise the noise floor of the room considerably, an IsoWall will "bend" with the pressure and absorb the sub bass sound wave to prevent excessive low frequency reverberation.
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Turn plain sheetrock into cost-effective architectural acoustic ceilings
Retain the ambiance of hubbub, enhance the clarity of table top conversation and quiet intrusions from across the room. Perfect retrofit for restaurants and coffee shops, fellowship and activity halls, meeting and conference rooms and specialty rooms such as home theaters, museums, art galleries and the great room at home.
Create a sociable sonic landscape. Convert any room with a gypboard, wood or plaster ceiling into a class act, a room that looks beautiful and sounds even better, and yet, it's all so naturally comfortable, no one even notices. The ASC Coffered Ceiling system was developed to help rooms support multiple simultaneous conversations without over damping the ambiance. It's busy, busy, busy all around you and yet, it stays clear and calm where you are, no matter where you are. Every table is a good table. You are waiting tables and as you move from table to table, it's always busy out there, but the calm seems to follow where ever you go. Open spaces are louder than you realize, and our system helps retain the ambiance but also create intimacy.
ASC's PanelTrap is a combination mid/treble absorber diffuser that also traps bass when mounted across a corner. It's a budget friendly basstrap that is easy to install and easy to look at. Equally suitable for recording studio, hifi, and home theater use, a full PanelTrap system can transform your room from an intolerable echo chamber to a pleasant space for work or play.
Systems include mounting rails for flat or corner mounting. Units are 16" wide and typical length of each section is 60". Priced at approximately $40 per linear foot of coverage.
Explore the musical intelligibility and the sonic image-ability of your audio system
This test is a rapid gated slow sine sweep. It demonstrates the musical clarity vs frequency of the HiFi system in your room. In some ranges of sound you will hear strong rapid dynamic sound level changes while in other ranges the tone bursts blur together in reverberant chaos. You can also hear the more familiar peaks and valleys of your room. Then play it again but this time close your eyes and concentrate on the sound stage of this perfectly mono signal. In some tone ranges the image stays put; stage center, small and tight, where it belongs. But the next tone range sees the image lose focus and fluff up into a ball of fog. And yet another sees the image up and wander off, flying around the sound stage like Peter Pan.
The objective of performing the MATT test in your listening room is to determine where you might move your speakers, listening position, and/or where to add acoustic treatment to your room to obtain the highest quality sound possible from the components in your listening environment. Play the MATT test first over headphones and then in your room. You hear a scale of rapid tone bursts that any HiFi system should be able to reproduce. Your system could but it can't because the room keeps getting in the way. Then concentrate on the sound stage. It's a mono signal and the image should stay stage center, tight and focused, but it doesn't.
How fast is your room? Most audiophiles know how loud they can play their room before it begins to break up. Even the speakers have a breakup threshold, above which we begin to hear cone breakup and box buzz. The MATT test is an easy way to ring out your room without risking doing damage to structure or gear due to sustained power at one frequency. At lower sound levels it checks out the room acoustic part of your listening experience, sorting out clear dynamic bandwidths from blurred bandwidths.
The MATT test CD ships to you for FREE and includes the Matt test CD and test instructionsPurchase the MATT Test CD
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Download the MATT Test signal for free
The PCAD (Poly Cylindrical Absorbing Diffusor) is a highly curved panel providing broadband absorption to reduce the "echo" in the room. These unique panels have the added benefit of treble reflectors distributed evenly throughout the panel. This is the perfect product for fine tuning your listening room, calming the room just enough without overly deadening the sound.
The modular 12” x 12” size opens up nearly unlimited possibilities for use on walls and ceilings.
ASC's CoolTrap is a basic “building block” for architects and interior designers concerned about the acoustic properties of their designs, the CoolTrap provides specular (softly scattered) treble diffusion from 250 Hz to 4 kHz, which gives smooth vocal range absorption.
Applications
Hifi Rooms
Home Theaters
Commercial - Conference Rooms and Classrooms
Pro Audio - Mixing and Recording Studios
CoolTraps come in sets of 16
ASC's WindowPlug excels at reducing road and traffic noise intrusion into your bedroom or workspace. Landscaping equipment, utility trucks, neighboring dogs, heat pumps, backup generators... the list goes on of the nuisances you will be able to block from interrupting your peace and quiet.
If you are the one making noise (mixing down your latest recording, wailing out an electric guitar solo, watching an action movie, or performing home dentistry), the WindowPlug can be, installed and removed as needed to maintain the peace in your neighborhood.
The TubeTrap is the foremost corner-loaded bass trap in the audio industry. It was only natural that ASC would adapt the same technology to fit flush into corners, walls and ceilings.
Half Round TubeTraps are a custom order product.
The Quarter RoundTubeTrap Standard gives you very high performance in a form-fitting package, custom design to fit in the corner when space is at a premium. All models feature Isothermal construction
Standard Quarter Round TubeTraps are a custom order product.
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ASC's SoundPanel is built to interior design standards, it features bevel cut face, crisp corners, and smooth finish. They come in a wide variety of beautiful fabrics and is trimmed out by a paintable white picture frame. The SoundPanel is completely finished on all sides, including the back.
Sometimes we need more absorption at a certain frequency or bandwidth than the standard TubeTrap for that same frequency range can provide. That’s when SuperTraps are called into play.
SuperTraps are TubeTraps tuned to operate to lower frequency than their standard counterparts.
They are standard TubeTraps whose interior has been fit with acoustic circuitry to reshape their frequency response curve in the bass range, creating more efficiency in one tuned bandwidth at the expense of efficiency in the sidebands.
For decades Audiophiles & Recording Engineers have relied on the award-winning TubeTraps to get their room sound just right. Simply place them in the corners of your listening room or studio, and they go to work—giving you a clean musical bassline, along with added high frequency ambient sparkle.
