"Home Theater Furniture Fabric & Materials"
Fabrics of home theater seating play an important role in determining the ultimate timbre or quality of sound.
To understand the dynamics at play, it is essential to understand that the sound perceived by the human ear is the sum result of direct waves and reflections of the sound wave.When these reflections are early enough, the result is amplified sound. However, a factor that is worth noting, with respect to home theater chair material, is that sound is not made of uniform tones or frequencies.
Sound ranges in frequencies, with the audible range being between 20 and 20thousand Hz, and tones or harmonics ranging from the fundamental to the first, second, third ...harmonics. Thus, a particular music composition would vary in frequencies and harmonics, all of which are impacted by the type of home theater seating material used.
With materials like leather, fabric etc. absorbing sound in varying degrees, absorptive materials are also frequency selective. Thus the fabric used on home theater furniture will affect the degree or intensity of reverberation or echo, besides affecting the timbre, pitch and general amplitude of the sound.
With high frequency sounds being more readily absorbed than low, increasing absorption by the use of fabrics in home theater chairs tends to render reverberations that have more bass in tone.