MSE Audio announced it will release the Theater Sound Designer, an online tool to enable audio designers to design theaters and media rooms with the right speakers. MSE Audio has hundreds of theater options available in on-wall, in-wall, Custom Box and floor standing formats. The theater designer provides specific product recommendations to guide the integrator through the product selection.

Theater Sound Designer features dARTS digital speakers and PhaseTech CI and PC products. MSE Audio says it will soon expand to include Induction Dynamics theater options. The theater/media room systems offered include a range of MSE Audio’s patented technologies that includes the dARTS in-room calibration system; a soft dome tweeter; the Positive Clamping System that prevents the wall from becoming part of the speaker; Unicel Acoustic Treatment to minimize sound wave interaction with the wall when using in-wall speakers; Absolute Phase crossovers for broad on-axis response; patented Bass Extending technology; and patented RPF Flat Piston and glass fiber drivers.

To use the Theater Sound Designer, users answer a short series of questions about the theater space such as seating distance from the screen, sound level required, what type of speakers and subs are needed and the number of surround speakers. By selecting the parameters that meets the project requirement, the theater designer will present the options for the optimal theater loudspeaker/subwoofer audio designs for the project.

Theater Sound Designer will go live on the MSE Audio website on Thursday, Feb. 17.