RPG Diffusor Systems

Masterdisk, New York, NY

"Francis Manzella Design recently had the pleasure of designing a new high resolution mastering room for Masterdisk's newest engineer: Leon Zervos. Coming over from Absolute Audio, where Francis Manzella had designed his last room, Leon was insistent that we do it 'just like my last room' only a little bigger. I assured him that we would give him a refined monitoring environment with improved accuracy, and a beautiful acoustic interior design that would surely impress his clients and be easy to work in for long sessions.

With the help of products from RPG® and the fine work of CHBO contractors, the room has been a great success. This room is primarily a stereo playback / mastering environment, but as Masterdisk is doing more and more surround work, the specifications had to be 5.1 friendly with an easy conversion to full surround as required by the particular session. Leon chose Dunlavy V main left and right monitors, which are powered by Crown Studio Reference amplifiers. A modified Refections Free Zone (RFZ™) design was implemented by FM Design with the addition of front wall RPG® Diffractal® kickers behind the main monitors intended mostly for the surround speakers.

The Diffractals® in combination with a front wall central cluster of RPG® Abffusors® makes for some absolutely startling imaging. Right off the bat, when we walked in to setup the system, the imaging was deep and three dimensional. With a little tweeking of the final position for the loudspeakers, Leon was thrilled. There is also an array of RPG® Diffractals® behind the listening position to help diffuse the direct return from the rear of the room, as well as the side reflections steered into it by the RFZ™ geometry. Varying depth Helmholtz Slat trapping on the rear side walls as well as deep trapping in the ceiling and soffits are combined with surface mounted RPG® Absorbor™ panels on the front side walls. This allows some of the direct signal from the surround speakers, as well the 'wrap around' diffracted signals from the main monitors to be randomnly absorbed or sent on into the front wall Diffractal® / Abffusor® systems.

All in all the combination of beautiful stretched fabric finishes, wood floors, and Custom RPG® products have combined to give Leon a wonderfully accurate and exciting room in which to work. As always, FM Design and it's customer are both pleased with the quality of product and service received from RPG®".

Francis Manzella, President.

Installed Products

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