Acoustishade

kach22i · Mar 4, 2010

Has anyone used something similar?

What is the Wife Acceptance Factor rating?

Acoustishade
http://www.hometheaterdesignmag.com/100709stewart/

Stewart Filmscreen is branching out.............................Windows are typically a home cinema's weakest link, due to light and sound leakage. Black-out shades are hardly new but the Acoustishade is the only black-out window treatment that also combines noise filtration, too. The AcoustiShade is comprised of three main elements: a sound attenuating blackout layer that keeps light and exterior noise from entering the display area, a perforated decorative fabric that reduces resonance, and an air space with proven acoustical benefits. In fact, the noise reduction allows technicians to calibrate audio systems more accurately.

JMAUSGP · Mar 16, 2010

A buddy of mine recently got divorced and bought a new house and just last week set up a World Class Home Theater system with a Sony projector on a 100 inch screen and an all Paradigm 7.1 speaker system in his new house.

He just had Acoustishades installed on all the windows in the theater room and he says that when his ex-wife comes over he just pulls down the Acoustishades and fires up the HT and he swears that he can neither see nor hear her yelling at him from the yard.

According to him they work really, really well on both sight and sound and they look pretty good too. Unfortunately she through a rock through the window, but they didn't stop the rock

It was his fault though, he taught her how to play 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'.

FOUNTAIN · Mar 16, 2010

kach22i said:
What is the Wife Acceptance Factor rating?

Apparently they throw rocks at them!!!!

Glen

JMAUSGP · Mar 17, 2010

Only from the outside! If she had been inside she would have thrown the rocks directly at him and left the acoustishades alone

Okay seriously, I have these in my theater room. They have a valance which hides the units when not in use. They are available in more than one color, mine are white, but then so are the theater walls.

They are about 3/4 of an inch thick with a air chamber, so they are substancial and since my wife picked the color out and we have used them for some time now, I would say WAF is high.

I know, I know, theater walls are suppose to be dark or black, but due to low WAF for dark I had to go light or white which in turn explains the white acoustishades and the happy WAF, I mean wife.

zaphod · Mar 17, 2010

what do they do about light bleed around the sides and bottom?

and if i can be so bold - what do the blinking things cost?

JMAUSGP · Mar 22, 2010

At least on mine, there is a track down each side that holds the Accoustishade in place, it does not allow any light bleed around the edges. As for the bottom, the is a small wooden lip that when the shade is pulled all the way down, there is no bleed there either.

When properly installed these things work as advertised and they do keep the light and somewhat the sound out.