Featured Projects and Industry Solutions

Theaters

• 35,000 Projects
• Over 30 million square feet installed
• QuietRock has been the choice of top theater designers since 2003.

Home Theaters

The requirements for home theater construction are significant. Theater rooms can produce peaks of 110dB or more, which adjacent rooms ideally should be dead quiet. This exceeds what standard construction techniques can deliver, and requires new technologies to satisfy customers. Serious Energy produces advanced building materials to meet the demands of world-class home theaters, including QuietRock 545, tested to STC 80; and, QuietHome Doors, with STC ratings up to 51

Achieving high STC ratings for walls and ceilings had traditionally been costly and unreliable. Serious Energy offers home theater designer/dealer/installer professionals and enthusiasts a complete line of high-performance products to soundproof walls and ceilings, from QuietRock® to QuietWood®, QuietHome Doors, and QuietGlue®. The installation can be easily done either at time of new construction or as a rehab project in your existing room.

Home theater designer/installers used to be limited to resilient channels, hats and clips or mass loaded vinyl to try to achieve STC values in the mid 40’s, with low frequency loss factors of less than 20dB. Some of these techniques are famous for failing. Acoustical engineers estimate failure rates of 50%-90%.

Generally, the higher the dB isolation across all frequencies, the better your home theater environment will be for those inside and outside the theater. Serious Energy offers the highest tested STC walls in the world, with products ranging from the entry level QuietRock 510, to the affordable score/snap QuietRock 525 to QuietRock 545. And for the DIY marketplace, QuietGlue Pro® offers the “lowest cost of materials” option with the best performance of any viscoelastic polymer on the market today.

With 20 million square feet installed in some 20,000 projects, you can’t go wrong choosing QuietRock.

Commercial Theaters

The finest theaters in the world today use QuietRock 545 soundproof drywall panels. Do you?

With the advent of modern digital soundtracks and high performance sound reproduction technology, movies have gotten much louder.

This phenomenon has created quite a dilemma in some theaters. Often, the people watching the latest romantic comedy can hear the special effects bonanza being shown in the next theater over.  As we all know, that can severely limit the enjoyment of the movie theater experience.

THX, the industry leading movie theater sound company, understand this problem and authored a paper  stating the recommended levels of noise reduction for theater walls. The recommendations were based on a statistical analysis of film sound tracks and the background noise common in a movie theater.

Most movie theater designers meet these requirements by using lots of mass, such as poured concrete walls. Then they add a separate row of studs of each side with at least two layers of drywall. While this design works, it is very expensive and takes a lot of time to build.

Modern engineered damped drywall panels allow for a much easier design. And because QuietRock 545  hangs just like standard drywall, construction can go much faster than the standard poured concrete method.  Faster construction means less labor and less money needed to build a new theater.

Common Noise Problems

• Home theaters
• Commercial theaters
• Media, entertainment
• Music, game, jam room

Solutions

For home theaters, we recommend QuietRock 510,  QuietRock 525, QuietRock 530 or QuietRock 545 products depending on budget.

For home recording studios and jam rooms, we normally recommend specifying QuietRock 545.

Standards

• A quiet room is defined as maximum 40 dBA background noise level.
• Homes usually require STC 50-80 for sensitive areas such as home theater walls.