STEWART MCINTOSH AUDIO LAUNCH NEW ACOUSTITARTAN ROOM TREATMENT FABRIC

Stewart McIntosh Audio (SMA) AcoustiTartan set to “revolutionize” room treatment technologies.

So, yes we are aware of what date it is and had this news item not come from the source it had come from we’d be treating it with the same degree of suspicion that you are right at this moment. However, I personally know the two people involved in this project and I am aware of their backgrounds in Audio (at the BBC) and in Software development for a leading multinational organisation. I’ve also been privy to a number of the discussions around this product and project right from the offing in 2019 at the North West Audio Show.

AcoustiTartan is a new fabric designed in Scotland and fabricated specifically for the home and professional audio markets where products such as GIK acoustic panels may not be suitable, though the latter has been our preferred method of room treatment for many years at PiG Towers.

Stewart McIntosh Audio (SMA) has been created through the partnership of Mark Stewart, who worked up until recently with the BBC and Alan McIntosh, the famed mountaineer and Scottish whisky aficionado. Together they have worked with industry professionals with almost 500 years of collective experience in the audio world, and world-class manufacturing designers to create a fabric that has, they claim, all the properties required from an acoustic material.

Mark Stewart is glad to have tamed his “Brown Noise” issues.

The press release we received states that AcoustiTartan is able to absorb frequencies as low as 5-9Hz and so is able to deal with the bothersome “brown noise” spectrum of sound in your room. Stewart is quoted in the release as saying that he had had many a mishap with the aforementioned frequency range and was pleased to have finally tamed it. McIntosh was equally enthusiastic about having suppressed this particular infra-frequency range and states in the press release and in his usual candid manner, that their test facility was “No longer full of crap” and that it was “ A great relief!”

McIntosh ice climbing in East Anglia (2021)

AcoustiTartan also has the benefit of it being able to be worn to individually “tune” a room to the individual’s personal taste.

AcousticTartan is said to be fabricated from recycled plastic bottles picked from the Scottish Ocean just off the coastal hamlet of Stirling, with a special metallic “fabric” running through the weave that is created from disused whisky bottle caps that McIntosh has been working his way through over the R&D period.

The pair are aiming to take their product to Kickstutter in the very near future and we will bring you more news as and when we have it.

Alan, the McIntosh in Stewart McIntosh, is closely involved in R&D. Please note the AcoustiTartan attire he is sporting and the careful positioning of potatoes to fine-tune the acoustic environment.

Written with the full permission and cooperation of Alan McIntosh and Mark Stewart. Thanks, guys.

HiFi Pig Says: A fascinating new product from Scotland that is sure to revolutionise room treatment as we know it.