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Absorbers: Swallowing sound

Absorbers are probably the best-known element in terms of room acoustics. They are used to minimize flutter echoes, comb filters and, as bass traps, also room modes, so that the listening situation, sound quality and speech intelligibility are improved. They „swallow“sound and even convert it into heat.

Imagine a room that has bare walls and that your speaker integrates a mechanism that can shoot bouncy ball at different speeds. First, this hits a point on the wall that is on the opposite back side wall due to the angled orientation of the speaker. Congratulations, you‘ve just discovered an area with strong reflections. How nice it would be to place an absorber there to stop the bouncy ball from flying around and maybe even knocking over the