{"id":196031,"date":"2024-07-02T12:24:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=196031"},"modified":"2024-07-02T12:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:24:21","slug":"ikea-mittzon-affordable-acoustic-panels-as-a-first-step-to-preparing-a-listening-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/ikea-mittzon-affordable-acoustic-panels-as-a-first-step-to-preparing-a-listening-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Ikea Mittzon: Affordable Acoustic Panels as a First Step to Preparing a Listening Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish furniture giant\u00a0Ikea\u00a0has introduced a series of mobile acoustic panels called\u00a0Mittzon\u00a0. The Mittzon series panels come in a variety of sizes and installation methods and appear to be primarily designed to reduce noise in work areas. The panels can also be used for other purposes, such as as a partition in a large room.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/techweek.webp\" alt=\"Ikea Mittzon \u2013 Inexpensive Acoustic Panels as a First Step to Preparing a Listening Room\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Ikea&#8217;s Mittzon acoustic panels can be used not only to reduce noise in office spaces, but also to combat annoying reverberation in a listening room. The panels are covered in removable, washable covers. If the room has a lot of hard surfaces, clever placement of such acoustic panels will help combat numerous reflections of sound waves.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Ikea Mittzon \u2013 Inexpensive Acoustic Panels as a First Step to Preparing a Listening Room\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Ikea Mittzon \u2013 Inexpensive Acoustic Panels as a First Step to Preparing a Listening Room\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ikea has freestanding models in the Mittzon series that can be used to divide a space. There are also models that can be placed behind a table or on a wall. The panels are not very thick, so you shouldn\u2019t expect much in terms of low-frequency damping. Mittzon panels mainly dampen mid- and high-tones, and in some cases this can be useful.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Ikea Mittzon \u2013 Inexpensive Acoustic Panels as a First Step to Preparing a Listening Room\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/4_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Ikea Mittzon \u2013 Inexpensive Acoustic Panels as a First Step to Preparing a Listening Room\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ikea&#8217;s\u00a0Mittzon\u00a0series\u00a0panels\u00a0do not claim to be a complete solution for acoustically preparing a listening room, but they can be a first step in the right direction. After all, even a fantastically expensive audio system can be powerless in a reverberant room. Acoustic panels or other acoustic treatment of the listening room can have a greater effect than replacing system components or cables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish furniture giant\u00a0Ikea\u00a0has introduced a series of mobile acoustic panels called\u00a0Mittzon\u00a0. The Mittzon series panels come in a variety of sizes and installation methods and appear to be primarily designed to reduce noise in work areas. The panels can also be used for other purposes, such as as a partition in a large room. At [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/ikea-mittzon-affordable-acoustic-panels-as-a-first-step-to-preparing-a-listening-room\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":196032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-196031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}