Cristal Sound by Ceilingo: the musical mirror

A mirror that remains a mirror

Cristal Sound changes nothing about the object: the glass stays glass, with no grille, no perforation and no visible added thickness. What changes is what is behind it, and what the room does with that surface once it becomes the source of sound.

Why a large surface changes the listening

A conventional driver concentrates energy in a narrow cone: the sound is good in front, less good to the side. A large emitting surface spreads that energy across its whole height and width, which makes the level far steadier as you move about in front of it.

The criterion that counts in a bathroom

Nobody listens seated in the right place in a bathroom: you move, you lean, you turn. A system whose rendering changes with every movement is more of a nuisance there than elsewhere. That is precisely the defect a wide source removes.

Moisture, which rules most solutions out

A conventional speaker in a wet room raises the question of the cone and the grille. Here there is neither on the visible side: the exposed surface is glass, which fears neither steam nor splashes.

What it completes

Cristal Sound is for rooms where fitting a speaker would be bulky or short lived. In a living room set up for listening to music, it comes as a complement to an existing installation rather than in its place.

360 degree diffusion is developed on the page about sound through the ceiling, and the heating and sound version on the Mirolia Panel Deco page.

Even sound across the whole room

A mirror that carries sound is only worth having if the sound stays good as you move about in front of it. That is the subject of the page on even sound, alongside the one on 360 degree diffusion.