Sabins, SAC, & NRC — a practical guide.
Acoustics First
When optimizing a room’s acoustics, you’re often balancing how much sound is absorbed (loss) against how much bounces around (reverberation). Some common ways to describe absorption — sabins, SAC, and NRC — look different, but they’re closely related. Sabins A sabin is a direct measure of absorption: One sabin equals the sound-absorbing effect of one […]