AGS-FS1
AGS: Designed to greatly improve indoor sound fields
At Nihon Onkyo Engineering, their interest in the mysterious sound environment of forests has led them to research focusing on the special behaviour of sound waves diffused using mechanisms similar to the trees of a forest.
They also believe that everyone feels a certain magical comfortableness when in a forest.
Their development of the Acoustic Grove System was a result of their exploration of the connection between the acoustic mechanisms of the forest and this comfortableness.
In conventional acoustic designs for narrow rooms that do not have a particularly large space (such as with concert halls), the combination of reflective surfaces and sound-absorbing surfaces result in unnatural and peculiar characteristics in sound reflections.
Moreover, when a loud sound is emitted in a small room, the acoustic energy becomes saturated, resulting in a sound field with poor distortion.
To avoid such acoustic disturbances, they devised the AGS as a mechanism to achieve an ideal acoustic space similar to that of a forest.
The Acoustic Grove System columnar diffuser is designed to provide a sensation of an endless space akin to what one would feel in a forest.
When considering the ideal sound field, a forest with row upon row of innumerable trees is said to provide a space with crisp lower frequencies and rich middle to high frequencies.
With a lengthy list of achievements in studio construction both in Japan and overseas, and with acoustic simulation technology cultivated over many years, they at Nihon Onkyo Engineering focused on the acoustics of such a forest in developing their new room-tuning mechanism, the Acoustic Grove System (AGS) (patent/design registered).
AGS-FS1 is an easy-to-use free-standing acoustic tuning unit developed from AGS technology.
AGS-FS1 is developed as a room-tuning item for use as an extension of AGS technology.
It consists of a cluster of wooden columns arranged in a compact configuration and elaborately designed to diffuse sound naturally.
The sound field in the room will be improved by placing as few as one or two units.
It is effective both in dead rooms and in live rooms.
⟨Standard Specification⟩
Dimensions: 40 (W) x 32.5 (D) x 140 (H) cm, Weight: 24 kg
The effect it brings
Acoustic Grove Systems produce the following three main acoustic effects.
- Suppression of low-frequency standing waves
- Preventing adverse effects of intense reflected sound waves
- Control over sound-absorption characteristics according to the application
These effects allow for clearer sound localisation and comfortable reverberation in the spreading of sound with the desired qualities of crisp lower frequencies and genuine sounds, resulting in an innovative sound space that is otherwise impossible to achieve.
