MSE Audio has announced the release of its Theatre Sound Designer, an online tool designed to enable audio design for theatres and media rooms to achieve high performance for any given space.

MSE Audio has hundreds of theatre options available in on-wall, in-wall, custom box, and floor standing formats. The theatre designer provides specific product recommendations to guide the integrator through the product selection.

MSE Audio vice president Ken Hecht says the tool is the company’s first step in providing more relevant application-based information to partners: “Using the Theatre Sound Designer will help our resellers to easily find the right loudspeakers to meet the installation, performance, and budget objectives of their customers.”

The Theatre Sound Designer features dARTS digital speakers and PhaseTech CI and PC products. It will soon expand to include Induction Dynamics theatre options. The theatre/media room systems offered include a range of MSE Audio’s many patented and trademarked technologies that includes the dARTS in-room calibration system, the soft dome tweeter, Positive Clamping System that prevents the wall from becoming part of the speaker, Unicel Acoustic Treatment to minimise sound wave interaction with the wall when using in-wall speakers, Absolute Phase crossovers for broad on axis response, patented Bass Extending technology, and patented RPF Flat Piston and glass fiber drivers.

To use the Theatre Sound Designer, users answer a short series of questions about the theatre space: seating distance from the screen, sound level required, what type of speakers and subs and the number of surround speakers. By simply selecting the parameters that meets the project requirement, the theatre designer will present the base options for the optimal theatre loudspeaker/subwoofer audio design for the project.