About me
Name: Oliver
Born: 1996
Email: support@diffuser-
School: University of Pavel Jozef Šafárik in Košice, Applied Informatics. {This app was also used as my bachelor thesis}
Motivation: I’m an audiophil that never stops chasing the better sound, so I had find out how the acoustics in room works. I bought a plenty of acoustic absorbent foams and started experimenting with the sound in my room. The next thing that I was going to try out was a acoustic diffuser, but it was too expensive so I had to find a different way than purchasing it. After reading a few articles (and books), I decided to make an application to calculate them, so I’ll be able to build them by myself a lot cheaper. But then I realized, that it’s harder than I thought and there is a ton of math and other theoretical parts around them. I had to find something that explains these things and tells me more about the theory. I got hold of book called „Acoustic Absorbers and Diffusers, theory, design and application 2nd edition“ , got in contact with the creator of QRDude windows app, found a few other excellent articles and this was the start of my journey.
Few other words: Excuse me for my English if there are mistakes made in the app or on this page. You should understand everything that I’m trying to explain. If you made a diffuser using this app, feel free to send me pictures about the build. I’ll be glad! IF THERE IS A BUG OR THE APP IS NOT WORKING AS IT SHOULD, PLEASE LET ME KNOW (email address is at the top) AND I’LL TRY TO FIX IT.
Sources:
- Bill Collison (the creator of QRDude), his web page: http://www.subwoofer-builder.com/qrd.htm
- Acoustic Absorbers and Diffusers, theory, design and application 2nd edition (Trevor J. and Peter D’Antonio)
- THE DESIGN AND APPLICATION OF MODULAR, ACOUSTIC DIFFUSING ELEMENTS (R. Walker, B.Sc.(Eng)., C.Eng., M.I.E.E)
- The QRD Diffractal: A New One- or Two-Dimensional Fractal Sound Diffusor (D’Antonio, Peter; Konnert, John)