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Grey acoustic panel installed in a home music studio corner, beside guitars and a turntable
Home Theatre & Studio Acoustics

Panels built to listen as carefully as you do.

Acoustic Design hand-builds fabric-wrapped acoustic panels and corner bass traps in Auckland, framed in recycled timber and finished to sit quietly in the room — until you hear the difference.

100%Recycled Timber Frames
NZHandbuilt, Small Batch
3Standard Finishes
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Our Approach

Every panel starts as offcut timber, not a spec sheet.

We build acoustic treatment the way a joiner builds furniture: a solid recycled-timber frame, dense mineral wool tuned to the room, and a fabric face chosen to disappear into your wall. No flat-pack foam, no polystyrene wedges.

Every project is measured, framed and wrapped to order from our Auckland workshop — for home theatres chasing a cleaner mix, music studios taming early reflections, and lounges that just sound too loud for their own good.

Inside the Panel

Three layers, one quiet room.

Nothing hidden — just a timber frame, dense absorptive wool, and a breathable acoustic fabric, built up by hand for every panel.

Recycled timber frame and mounting bracket inside a panel
01 — Frame

Recycled timber

Reclaimed structural pine, cut and braced by hand, built to hold shape for decades.

Dense mineral wool infill packed inside a panel frame
02 — Infill

Tuned absorption

High-density mineral wool, packed to the depth your room and frequency range actually need.

Close up of black, grey and white fabric-wrapped panel edges
03 — Face

Hand-wrapped fabric

Acoustically transparent cloth, stretched and stapled taut for a clean, gallery-flat finish.

Close up detail of stacked black and grey fabric wrapped panel corners
Finishes

Three faces, one build quality.

Every panel is available in three standard acoustic fabrics — black, white, or grey — so it sits in the room, not on top of it.

Black
Matte, low sheen
Grey
Neutral mid tone
White
Clean, soft finish
How a Panel Gets Made

From offcut timber to finished panel.

01

Room & measure

We talk through your space — home theatre, studio or lounge — and take measurements and photos of the walls in question.

02

Frame & fill

Recycled timber is cut and braced to size, then packed with mineral wool at the density your frequency range needs.

03

Wrap & finish

Panels are hand-wrapped in your chosen fabric, corners mitred flat, and fitted with concealed wall brackets.

04

Install

We deliver and hang, or ship flat-packed with brackets and instructions for a tidy DIY install.

Room Measurement

See what changed,
not just what was built.

A before-and-after reading gives a treatment plan something concrete to respond to. We use the same listening position and measurement path where practical, then explain what the result does — and does not — show.

Useful evidence, without the promise language.

Room behaviour varies with dimensions, furnishings, speaker placement, listening position and the amount of treatment installed. Readings are therefore project records, not a universal performance claim.

Tools and method are confirmed per project. If a calibrated measurement microphone or SoundID Reference is used, it is documented alongside the reading.

Reading view / example onlySame path, compared
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Before treatment After treatmentIllustrative curve shape only — not a project result.
01 / Baseline

Listen + record

Capture the room from a repeatable position before treatment decisions are made.

02 / Intervention

Place with intent

Use the room’s reflections, boundaries and constraints to guide panel coverage.

03 / Compare

Explain the delta

Re-measure where practical and hand over the context behind any visible change.

In the Workshop

Built in small batches, cured in the sun.

Every run of panels is built, wrapped and left to settle before it ever reaches a wall — a small-batch process that keeps every edge square.

Three finished acoustic panels leaning against an exterior weatherboard wall in the sun
Two acoustic panels on castor stands leaning against a house exterior

— Panels shown on temporary castor stands during finishing, prior to fabric trim & wall bracket fitting.

Acoustic Solutions

Acoustic treatment designed around the room.

From recording studios and home studios to home theatres, podcast rooms and creative spaces, Acoustic Design builds treatment to help control reflections and improve the way a room sounds.

01

Recording Studios

Panels, bass treatment and flexible acoustic solutions for recording and mixing spaces.

02

Home Studios

Practical treatment for smaller rooms where placement, reflection control and aesthetics matter.

03

Home Theatres

Acoustic treatment to help control reflections and support clearer listening.

04

Podcast Rooms

Treatment for voice recording, podcasting and content creation spaces.

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Acoustic Advice

Start with the problem you can hear.

Learn the difference between acoustic treatment and soundproofing, where panels and bass traps are typically used, and how to plan treatment for a studio or listening room.

Acoustic treatment vs soundproofing → How many acoustic panels do I need? → Where should acoustic panels go? →
Panel Designer

Sketch your room. See your price.

Enter your room size, place your speakers and furniture, and see exactly how many panels, bass traps and clouds fit, drawn to scale. Your layout turns into an instant estimate you can download as a PDF and send through for a quote.

01

Plan your room

Room size, door, window, speakers and furniture in four quick steps.

02

See what fits

A to-scale layout using our real panel sizes, with reflection points marked.

03

Pick your finish

Mock build your panels on the wall in black, grey or white.

04

Get your estimate

A live price as you go, plus a PDF of your plan to send with your quote request.

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Start a Project

Tell us about your room.

Send through your room dimensions and a couple of photos and we'll come back with a panel layout, finish options and a price — free, no obligation.

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