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Sound Outfitters New Speaker Floats Offer Solution For Problem Noise (26/11/2004)

Unwanted, annoying noise that you can't shut off is capable of having a severe effect on your physical and emotional well-being. No less than the World Health Organization blames excessive noise for increased heart disease and hypertension. Congress, New York State, California, and countless local authorities throughout the U.S. and the world recognize the problems caused by noise pollution and have responded by enacting laws to limit it. And both the U.S. Census Bureau and the United Nations predict a dramatic rise in people living in urban multi- unit buildings, resulting in a noise problem that will only be getting worse.

In response, two sound experts from the motion picture industry, Gordon Ecker and Bruce Black, have combined their half-century of experience in a new company, 1st Sound Outfitters LLC, to develop a cure for noise pollution and sound intrusion in one area: home theaters and stereos. Apartment, condo, and co-op dwellers know how easily sound from these systems can travel through a building. The result of 1st Sound Outfitter's efforts, "Speaker Floats," reduces or eliminates the ability of sound from a speaker to travel through physical structures - speaker cabinets, walls, floors and ceilings - into other rooms where that sound is unwanted and harmful.

Although Speaker Floats use a high-tech material, they are inexpensive. Made from a patented vibration isolation material used by NASA, they have been proven effective by years of use in professional sound studios. Ecker and Black are now making them available to the public in the hopes of promoting a quieter, more peaceful world.

Gordon Ecker, President, is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (http://www.oscars.org/), and served as vice president and president of the Motion Picture Sound Editors (http://www.mpse.org/). Before 1st Sound Outfitters LLC, he built a sound editorial company that enjoyed numerous Oscar nominations, winning for "Ghost and the Darkness" in 1996.

Bruce Black, C.E.O., has designed and built studios and custom electronics for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Skywalker Sound, DreamWorks, and Twentieth Century Fox, to name a few. He is a member the Audio Engineering Society and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, serving on their Theater Standards Committee. More information is available at his website, http://www.hollywood-audio.com/.

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