Leading Intercom audio technology is tested in silence

“Anechoic“ (i.e. echo preventing) or “noise deadening” are the terms used by audio specialists to refer to the artificial testing environments whose architecture is shaped with great precision to eliminate any unwanted sound. It is only in acoustic ‘clean rooms’ like these that audio high-tech can be quality tested to a high standard.

The world record for the quietest room of this kind – and, therefore, the quietest place on earth – is held, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, by US-based testing centre Orfield Laboratorie.

At the Commend Laboratories, too, anechoic rooms are among the standard equipment used for quality assurance of the sophisticated Intercom audio components. “Breaking a silence record here at the Commend Audio Lab is not really our big ambition,” says Andreas Pfeiffer, Commend’s head of development team with a smile. “Our record breaking ambitions are focussed more on making the best, most reliable audio technology to give people a clear voice when it counts” – instead of deadening the sound, making it come alive, one might say.