White Papers by Art Noxon
Art Noxon is a fully accredited Professional Acoustical Engineer with Master’s degree in both Mechanical Engineering (Acoustics) and Physics. He invented the TubeTrap in 1983. He created Acoustic Sciences Corp in 1984 to manufacture and distribute the TubeTrap. A prolific inventor, he has 12 TubeTrap related patents and has developed over 150 other acoustic devices and counting. A scientist, lecturer, writer, and teacher of acoustics, Art Noxon has presented numerous AES papers, magazine articles, white papers, lectures and classes in the field of applied acoustics.
Testing for Dynamic Distortion in Room Acoustics
Arthur Noxon speaks at Burning Amp Festival 2023 Sept. 2023 View as PDF Audio equipment, including amps and speakers, even listening rooms are at the very least always tested with a frequency sweep to get the dB vs frequency response curve.
How TubeTraps Opened a New Realm in Audio Playback
It’s been asked: How have TubeTraps Open a New Realm of Precision in the Performance of Audio Playback Systems? Well, audio minded people know to place TubeTraps in the corners behind the speakers and they know what benefits are delivered.
Acoustic Carpets
All “acoustics” are not the same. We have soundproofing and then we have sound conditioning. Soundproofing means keeping the sound in the room and sound conditioning usually means getting the sound that’s in the room to calm down. Some acoustic carpets are about soundproofing, reducing the sound transmitted to your neighbors, downstairs.
The Wall In The Desert
An old saying is known in many countries “The chain is only as strong as its weakest link.” Often, when we talk about the parts in our audio system, they are referred to as components and interconnects in the audio chain. Each component processes the signal and the interconnects transfer the signal from one component to another.




