Systems and methods for correcting sound loss through partially acoustically transparent materials

An audio-enhanced furniture system, comprising:

• a speaker system positionable within a furniture assembly having a solid, nondrapable, structure including perforations in a surface of the structure, the speaker system comprising at least one speaker covered by the structure,
• wherein the at least one speaker is configured to be tuned to compensate for sound being emitted from the at least one speaker through the structure by selection from a plurality of tuning profiles corresponding to a material type of the structure, a perforation amount of the structure, and one or more thicknesses of the structure;
• wherein the perforations are in a vertically oriented portion of the rigid-structure;
• wherein about 5% to about 70% of a portion of the structure adjacent to the at least one speaker includes the perforations;
• wherein a thickness of the structure adjacent to the at least one speaker is in a range of about 0.25 millimeter to about 30 millimeters, and
• wherein a diameter of each of the perforations in the structure adjacent to the at least one speaker is in a range of a micromillimeter to about 10 millimeters.

An audio-enhanced furniture system, comprising:

• a speaker system positionable within a furniture assembly having a furniture body comprising one or more structures, the one or more structures being perforated, solid, nondrapable, and rigid, the speaker system comprising a plurality of speakers mounted within the furniture body and being hidden from view by the one or more structures;
• and
• at least one speaker controller configured to control each speaker of the plurality of speakers, wherein each speaker of the plurality of speakers is configured to be tuned through the at least one speaker controller, to compensate for variations in sound resulting from sound being emitted from each speaker through the one or more structures, by an adjustment to an equalization of at least one of one or more target audio frequencies or one or more frequency bands emitted by each speaker, the adjustment including adjusting volume of at least one of the one or more target audio frequencies or the one or more frequency bands emitted by each speaker,
• wherein about 5% to about 70% of a portion of the one or more structures adjacent each speaker is perforated,
• wherein a thickness of the one or more structures adjacent each speaker is in a range of about 0.25 millimeters to about 30 millimeters, and
• wherein each speaker is configured to be tuned by selection from a plurality of tuning profiles corresponding to a material type of the one or more structures, a perforation amount of the one or more structures, and one or more thicknesses of the one or more structures.