Absorber™

RPG Absorber™

Sound can either be absorbed, reflected, or diffused. In many rooms, flat reflective surfaces can cause interfering reflections and excessive reverberation, which can corrupt music quality, speech intelligibility, and comfort.  One traditional approach to controlling the reflections and excess reverberation is to utilize absorptive panels, which consist of a porous absorbing core, typically fiberglass, mineral wool, or foam, covered with fabric, perforated vinyl, or newer Pannello panels with paintable, non-woven matt surfaces. In addition to our more advanced BAD™ Panels

RPG Diffusor Systems, Inc. also offers fabric wrapped panels in a wide range of thicknesses and textiles
and has also developed a simple and reliable method of attachment, which offers fixed or removable installation,
utilizing the ImpaleIt™ clip

Problem
Rooms with flat, untreated reflective drywall or plaster surfaces, generate strong specular reflections
and long reverberation times and levels, which interfere with speech intelligibility and music quality.
In these room there is often a limit on the depth of surface treatment and the budget.

Solution
A traditional solution to control room reflections and excessive reverberation has been the use of fabric
wrapped fiberglass panels. While this solution is rather dated and of waning interest to architects,
it is still employed as a stop gap measure when the budget for acoustical treatment is limited.
While RPG offers an extensive range of higher performance alternatives, we also offer standard fabric panels,
with chemically hardened edges, in a wide range of thicknesses, edge conditions,
fabrics and mountings for both wall and ceiling treatment. RPG also offers a high impact panel option,
which adds a 1/8”, 12 pcf surface layer that provides impact resistance and also tackability.
In the photo we show a 4”, 2” and 1” fabric wrapped panel in a range of fabrics
from standard Guilford FR701 panel fabrics to higher quality fabrics.

Features

• Efficient absorption
• Custom sizes
• High Impact Option
• Standard or Custom fabrics
• Any edge termination condition
• Ease of installation

Benefits

• The RPG Absorbor™ provides efficient absorption and can be mounted away from the mounting surface for improved low frequency absorption
• RPG offers custom fabrication in any size and thickness
• The high impact option adds a 1/8” , 12 pcf surface layer for high impact areas and if tackability is desired.
• Any standard Guilford or custom fabric that has sufficient transparency can be used
• RPG’s CNC capability allows any edge termination condition, as well as cutouts
• Installation is easy with RPG’s ImpaleIt fixed or removable Z clip or Rotofast connectors.

Applications
Gymatoriums Conference and teleconference rooms, Lecture Halls, Distance Learning Rooms, Public spaces,
Listening rooms, Recording and broadcast studios, Post production studios, Home theaters, Rehearsal rooms,
Auditoriums, Performance spaces