Our approach

The Thinking Behind the Rooms

Scenetonicbulletinree is an independent guide for people who want their homes to sound calmer, clearer and more suited to the way they live — without starting at the shop.

Listen before buying

Most rooms improve with attention before they improve with equipment. We ask readers to clap, record, sketch and move things first. Only then does it make sense to consider a new speaker or a panel, and often it no longer seems necessary.

Flat vector illustration of a desk covered with hand-drawn room plans, a pencil and a tape measure, in forest green, coral and pale aqua — Every guide begins as a floor plan and a list of what can be heard from the listening position.

Three words we keep apart

We distinguish acoustic treatment (what sound does inside a room), sound isolation (sound passing between spaces) and listening preference (what a person enjoys). Throughout the site, measurable principles are tagged separately from preferences, so you can see which advice rests on physics and which on taste.

We describe relaxation as a matter of comfort. We do not make medical claims about sound, and we point readers to qualified professionals for sleep, hearing or health concerns.

Sources we lean on

Wallace Clement Sabine, Collected Papers on Acoustics (1922)
R. Murray Schafer, The Tuning of the World (1977)
Bernie Krause, The Great Animal Orchestra (2012)
Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice (2005)
WHO Regional Office for Europe, Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region (2018)
ITU-R BS.775, ISO 3382, ISO 12913, ASTM C423 and ASTM E413

Independence and corrections

We accept no payment from manufacturers or retailers, use no affiliate links and do not review products for reward. If you spot an error, write to [email protected]; we correct pages promptly and note substantive changes.

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