I ordered a bunch of Selby panels to help deal with echo and reverberation issues in a couple of meeting rooms at work. I haven't seen any photos or details on these, so I thought I'd share some for future reference.

 

The panels are available in different sizes and thicknesses here:

Fibreglass Panels - Acoustic Room Treatment | Selby

 

I ordered a mix of 50mm and 25mm panels for different rooms and applications.

 

As an example, the 1200mm x 600mm x 50mm panels work out as roughly $90ea delivered ($369 for a pack of four).

 

They are constructed of rigid fibreglass board with an acoustically transparent open weave fabric covering.

 

Construction appears satisfactory - from the front and sides they generally look very clean and tidy, with some slight puckering of the corners on some panels. The rears are thankfully hidden from view. I wouldn't call then "premium" quality but very passable.

 

The colour shown here is "white" although it subscribes to the Richie Benaud school of white (the cream, the bone, the white, the off-white, the ivory and the beige) and is certainly not a pure-white. 

 

They also come with wall-mounted "impalers" to mount the panels. The impalers can either be screwed onto a wall, or stuck on with 3M command strips or similar, and you then spike the panels onto these. 

 

Not a bad option for someone wanting a pretty cheap and easy solution to acoustic panels without the fun of DIYing it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good work Pete, I have been looking at these as I need additional panels.  How are the corners.  I purchased another brand of panel, and many of the corners are not the best. The fabrics is not folded on the four corners, but cut and glued.  Several of the corners look like the panel has been dropped, and the fabrics is lifting on the backs.

The company has agreed to an exchange.  To replace, I have ordered several Soundbox panels, as they apparently have an alloy frame, but I need some addition panels.

18 minutes ago, JkSpinner said:

Good work Pete, I have been looking at these as I need additional panels.  How are the corners.  I purchased another brand of panel, and many of the corners are not the best. The fabrics is not folded on the four corners, but cut and glued.  Several of the corners look like the panel has been dropped, and the fabrics is lifting on the backs.

The company has agreed to an exchange.  To replace, I have ordered several Soundbox panels, as they apparently have an alloy frame, but I need some addition panels.

 

 

The corners are cut and glued on these panels too. Neat, but not super-clean lines - they pass the visual test from a few metres away but may not past closer scrutiny.

 

No lifting yet, but they are literally brand new and were only opened today. No visible damage thankfully!

 

 

Edited October 16, 20241 yr by pete_mac

I expect that these will be effective absorbers provided that there are enough of them.  Nice to see them being commercially available; would have saved me, not a DIY sort of person at all, a lot of work.

 

I have very similar DIY versions.

 

I have 6 x 2400 x 1200 x 100 sheets of rigid fibreglass that I bought direct from an insulation business (Fletcher, the Pink Batts people).  Mrs A covered them with a sort of hessian/linen material in light to dark Richie Benaud colours to match the room.  They are freestanding, not hung or fixed, and I can move them anywhere.  At the moment they just about cover the back wall, windows and all, together with 5 x 2m high x .75m diameter x 2.5mm thick fibreglass tube traps, also DIY.  The back wall is essentially out of the reflection equation.  Based on Linkwitz' ideas that sound should pass by your ears never to return.

 

Having said that it could all be better still if the absorption was well away from the walls in areas of particle velocity rather than pressure.  Against a wall is the least effective place for absorption.  At one stage I had teepee like structures out in the room but these made moving about the room a bit difficult, haha.  Now they are out of the way against the wall.  Good enough for me since in some places they are 300mm thick and leaning against the wall with an air gap between absorber and wall.

 

Many would say that I have overdone it, but I like it being on the slightly dead side of treated.

 

An awful photo but you get the idea.

 

Wow that looks really good as a value proposition and generally experiment with room acoustics without spending massive amounts. Like how it comes in different colors

Neo

On 16/10/2024 at 2:31 PM, aechmea said:

I expect that these will be effective absorbers provided that there are enough of them.  Nice to see them being commercially available; would have saved me, not a DIY sort of person at all, a lot of work.

 

I have very similar DIY versions.

 

I have 6 x 2400 x 1200 x 100 sheets of rigid fibreglass that I bought direct from an insulation business (Fletcher, the Pink Batts people).  Mrs A covered them with a sort of hessian/linen material in light to dark Richie Benaud colours to match the room.  They are freestanding, not hung or fixed, and I can move them anywhere.  At the moment they just about cover the back wall, windows and all, together with 5 x 2m high x .75m diameter x 2.5mm thick fibreglass tube traps, also DIY.  The back wall is essentially out of the reflection equation.  Based on Linkwitz' ideas that sound should pass by your ears never to return.

 

Having said that it could all be better still if the absorption was well away from the walls in areas of particle velocity rather than pressure.  Against a wall is the least effective place for absorption.  At one stage I had teepee like structures out in the room but these made moving about the room a bit difficult, haha.  Now they are out of the way against the wall.  Good enough for me since in some places they are 300mm thick and leaning against the wall with an air gap between absorber and wall.

 

Many would say that I have overdone it, but I like it being on the slightly dead side of treated.

 

An awful photo but you get the idea.

 

I might be able to get something like that into the shared living space if I can convince the aesthetics committee that they are cat scratching poles! And they would be!

i have treated my room with these and can say im very impressed

i put the 50mm ones at the first reflection points. then some of the skinnier ones along the side wall, back doors 

may look at some ceiling diffusion later on??

has turned the room into a different space. i have a large window on one side so no perfect. but just talking in the room feels pleasant compared to the rest of the house, tiled floors

one note, they do smell when they are new. left outside for a day to sir out. smell goes after a few days. 

cant complain about the qualty. a bargain in my book!