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The newly opened Kung Fu Studios in the hip Berlin neighbourhood of Kreuzberg are the latest top address for world-class hit productions made in Germany. Replacing the former Numarek sound studios, the new recording facilities are the residence of Marek Pompetzki, Paul NZA, and Cecil Remmler—presumably today’s most successful producer team in Germany.



The trio has ranked among the German top producers for several years now, and the three guys churn out productions that do not have to shy away from comparison on even the highest international level: The sound of German rapper Sido bears the mark of Pompetzki & Co.  just as much as countless other recordings by artists such as Miley Cyrus, Kelly Rowland, Nico Santos, Max Herre, Cassandra Steen, Deichkind, or Ivy Quainoo … the list could go on for a while.





Recording technology and acoustics at the Kung Fu Studios meet the highest technical standards, of course. At the same time, the premises provide plenty of room for creative work and offer

The „Color of the Year 2018″ is a dramatic violet that expresses originality, ingenuity, and visionary thinking.

The blue-based „Pantone™ Ultra Violet“ already played a predominant role on the major catwalks around the world during this season’s fall fashion shows. As in previous years, it will certainly not be long before the „color of the year“ will be the prevailing design color in consumer electronics, shop and trade fair construction, and interior design.

Our colour  »Lavender« makes the colour trend of the coming year available in the field of ​​high-quality, acoustically transparent speaker fabrics. The colour, available  as standard Speaker Cloth (colour code 37) and as 

Spray adhesive is very popular with many of our customers, especially with the professionals, because it offers a quick and convenient method of fastening our speaker cloth.  Have a look at our our video tutorial on Youtube to see how it’s done.

Most adhesives are somewhat yellowish due to their composition, which sets certain limits to the bonding of speaker fabric on the visible sides of workpieces. Our new high-quality spray adhesive is completely transparent and provides excellent adhesion. It is virtually invisible, which is great when it comes to fastening speaker cloth directly on sound-absorbing styrofoam, such as Basotect, for instance.

The spray glue is now available in our online shop.

The Beolab 8000 from Bang&Olufsen an iconic example of elegant styling and good performance . It was one of the most successful B&O loudspeakers ever, remaining in the range for 18 years without any major change. Many music and home theatre lovers still hold the Beolab 8000 in the highest regard and consider it a purchase for life—no wonder in view of the whopping £2940 you had to cough up per piece in 2010 , which was the last year of production.

Restoration of the B&O Beolab 8000 with black cover fabric from Speaker Cloth.com

But as the saying goes, nothing is perfect. In the case of the Beolab 8000, the delicate speaker grill cloth was a definite downside. It didn’t take long and the speaker fabric looked much older than it actually was, which compromised the design (and reduced the value) of the speakers considerably.

Luckily, it is quite easy and inexpensive to return the speaker front to its former glory. Our s

In a way, it's an honour for your own brand to be so brazenly copied: A company based in Launceston in the south of England has recently started offering speaker fabric "from akustikstoff.com" on the British Amazon marketplace at astonishingly low prices. The only problem is that this fabric doesn't come from us. Only the product descriptions, the photos, the article numbers and the brand name were simply hijacked.



In short:A classic case of product piracy.Hence our warning: If you don't want to be taken for a ride by dubious suppliers with copies and really value high-quality fabric directly from the manufacturer, the best and cheapest way is to order your speaker cover fabric directly from our online shop. And when ordering speaker fabric on Amazon, the following appliesOnly if the supplier is called akustikstoff.com will you end up with our quality product in the package.

„Is your Acoustic Cloth really opaque?“ That’s a question our customers ask quite frequently. After all,  speaker fabric from Akustikstoff.com is primarily used to hide loudspeakers, AV equipment or whatever else as elegantly as possible without impairing acoustic transparency.
The theoretical ideal is obvious, of course: absolute acoustic transparency plus absolute opacity (i.e., the opposite of transparency) at the same time. Unfortunately, the laws of physics counteract this ideal, since both sound and light are waves – temporal and local periodical changes of a physical quantity in the dry language of physics.


Marking with acoustically transparent fabric: a deep black background remains somewhat visible under white speaker fabric.

t’s all about waves

As sound propagates through the mechanical deformation of a medium, in our case by changes in air pressure, everything that is in the way acts like a kind of barrier: It is moved itself and starts vibrating, this way absorbing energy from the impinging waves, and it reduces the amplitude, i.e., the magnitude of the oscillation. That’s

More or less as a matter of course, our acoustic fabrics were present at this year’s High End fair in Munich, Germany. Especially the Austrian high end speaker manufacturer Wiener Lautsprecher Manufaktur presented a large variety of acoustically active elements that were nicely covered with our acoustic cloth.  Here are a few impressions from the fair booth.

We’d like to thank Mr. Andreas Steiner from Wiener Lautsprecher Manufaktur for the photos.

Kurt Büchler used our acoustically transparent Metal Line Speaker Cloth with its elegant metallic shine for a pretty smart DIY solution to turn his living room cabinet into a highly attractive phono wall unit.

The speakers are nicely hidden behind the silver speaker fabric, the cabinet appears much more elegant and has turned into a piece of true phono furniture that suits the room well and provides value added.

For the first time ever, Akustikstoff.com took part in the Frankfurt Musikmesse.  Together with the studio builder Professional Media Solutions, we had a share of the joint stand provided by  ES Pro Audio, and we presented our acoustic fabrics to international trade and industry professionals. We introduced six new colours and talked to numerous studio builders, acoustic experts, speaker and equipment manufacturers, stage builders, and, of course, musicians.

The response was consistently positive and encouraging. It confirmed that our range of acoustically transparent fabrics is truly unparalleled worldwide. Professionals were especially impressed by the remarkable properties of our Acoustic Cloth 2.0, which is water-repellent , stain-resistant, and flame-retardant.  Our newly developed 

Spring has come and is getting us all in the mood for fresh and vibrant colours. We’ve drawn on the colour explosion around us to come up with something as diverse as a flowerbed: Acoustic Cloth Custom, the acoustic fabric dyed in the colour of your choice. 

Forget about colour limitations when you’re looking for a quality acoustically transparent fabric for speaker grilles as well as for AV furniture and wall panelling in sound studios, showrooms, and exhibition booths! Simply have the fabric dyed in the colour your design concept requires.

Our Acoustic Cloth Custom meets the needs of any studio designer, exhibition stand builder, and interior designer: The fabric makes it possible to design rooms and exhibition booths in the clients‘ corporate colours without any compromise, because Acoustic Cloth Custom is dyed according to your colour specifications.

Acoustic Cloth Custom is the

Keeping receiver, BluRay player and other AV equipment hidden from the eye makes your AV setup look top stylish and much less cluttered. That’s exactly what our customer Marno Panis from Den Dungen in the Netherlands did with the help of a piece of our acoustic fabric in soft grey. „The result is beautiful“, he wrote happily.

A clear advantage of our acoustic cloth is its permeability to infrared light. It ensures that your remote control will work flawlessly even when all the equipment is hidden behind the handy speaker cloth, which also comes in convenient pre-cut pieces.

Of course you can also make a center speaker or a soundbar „disappear“ to achieve a much more harmonious appearance of your AV furniture and equipment.

By the way: It only takes basic handicraft skills, some bits and pieces from the DIY shop, and our acoustic fabric to turn any run-of-the-mill shelf

Many customers are pleasantly amazed by the fact that we can deliver even large quantities of our acoustically transparent fabrics without delay.

The simple reason for the prompt delivery of our speaker cloth is that we have created sufficient on-site storage capacities.

Of course, we don’t want to keep our customers waiting for their acoustic fabrics. So we do everything we can to despatch even bulk orders of any type and colour on the day of order.