Computer integrated systems design for the listening room

Pick the bay. Seat the driver. Tuned.

TAT CHUAN AUDIO PTE LTD keeps a working listening room at 18 Tannery Lane #05-02 Lian Tong Building 347780, Singapore (SG), where every system is assembled, measured and heard before it leaves the bench. The team pairs each driver to its cabinet by hand, fits the bay with leather and cloth, and holds the room open for repeated listening rounds. Start with our six studio services →

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Six services, run off the same bench

Tannery Lane workshop

Work at TAT CHUAN AUDIO PTE LTD follows a simple order: choose the bay, seat the driver, tune the room. The six services below are the stages that carry a system from an empty cabinet shell to a finished listening room in Singapore, and each one can be booked on its own or folded into a full build.

  • Driver Match Desk

    Every driver that arrives at the bay is measured against the cabinet it will live in, and matched on cone mass, surround stiffness and impedance curve before any screw is turned. The desk also keeps a running card for each unit so a replacement years later can be chosen to the same profile. Read the full Driver Match Desk outline.

  • Dial Plate Builds

    Dial plates are cut, drilled and engraved in the same room where the room is measured, so the scale on the plate matches the sweep the system actually produces. Each plate is hand-finished and set into its panel with a thin cloth gasket to keep dust away from the mechanism. See the Dial Plate Builds notes.

  • Leather Bay Fittings

    The bay itself is fitted with leather and grille cloth, cut to templates that have been refined over many years on Tannery Lane. Fittings are stitched in place with saddle thread, tensioned by hand and allowed to settle before the panel is closed. The Leather Bay Fittings page explains the hide selection and the stitch spacing we keep.

  • Listening Rounds

    Listening rounds are timed sessions in the showroom where a client, an engineer and a room card sit together and work through a prepared set of recordings. Notes are taken in plain language, not only in numbers, so decisions can be made by ear and confirmed by measurement. Book a round through the Listening Rounds section.

  • Cabinet Tune Days

    A cabinet tune day is a full day in the bay with the cabinet open, damping adjusted and the room swept repeatedly until the low end settles. Clients are welcome to sit in for part of the day and hear the changes happen in real time. The Cabinet Tune Days detail covers what to bring and how the day is paced.

  • Service Handover Evenings

    When a system is ready, it is handed over in the evening when the building is quiet and the room can be heard without traffic noise from the street below. The handover covers care of the leather, the cloth and the dial plates, plus a short record of every setting. Service Handover Evenings are described in full on the services page.

A room built for repeated listening, not one big reveal

The listening room at TAT CHUAN AUDIO PTE LTD is not a showroom in the usual sense. It is a working space on the fifth floor of Lian Tong Building, with one bench, one baffle wall and one seat that does not move. Systems are left running for days so that cloth, leather and cabinet can settle together, and clients are asked to come back more than once before a decision is made. A single impressive afternoon tells very little about how a room will behave after a month of ordinary evenings.

This is the thinking behind the order we teach every new member of the bench: pick the bay, seat the driver, tune the room. Each step has a cost in time, and none of them can be skipped without the next one becoming guesswork. The bay decides where a system sits and how it is reached; the driver decides what the cabinet is allowed to do; the tuning decides whether the room lets the system speak clearly. When all three agree, a room stops being a piece of equipment and starts being a place people want to sit.

The work is quiet and fairly technical, but it is not remote. Every project is handled by a named engineer who stays with it from the first measurement to the handover evening, and the same engineer is the person a client speaks to if something needs attention two years later. Records are kept on paper as well as in files, because a card in a drawer is still readable when a database is not.

What the room is set up to do

  • Bay widthNarrow stalls, wide seat
  • BaffleThree-driver, cloth faced
  • FittingsHide, thread and cloth
  • MeasurementSwept in the seat, then by hand
  • SessionsEvenings and full tune days
  • RecordsPaper card plus file copy

The bench is deliberately small, which keeps the queue short and the attention long. A typical cabinet tune day has one system open at a time, and a listening round seats at most four people so that everyone hears the same thing from the same place. Larger installations across Singapore are phased over several weeks rather than rushed through a single weekend.

Measured, then heard

Every sweep is checked against a plain listening pass before it is accepted. Numbers show a shape; they do not show whether a voice sits slightly forward or whether the top end feels dry after an hour.

If the two disagree, the listening pass wins and the measurement is repeated until the reason becomes clear.

Repairs that keep the room

A twelve year old cabinet is not replaced for the sake of a newer one. Surrounds are rebuilt, cloth is refitted and dial plates are re-engraved so the original bay keeps working.

Clients often bring a system back after years and find their original measurement card still on file.

One engineer, start to end

The engineer who matches the drivers is the engineer who tunes the room and runs the handover evening. No handoffs between departments mean fewer misunderstandings.

Direct questions go to the same person, and the address on record is a working one.

Service Handover Evenings open again this winter, and every system completed through the colder months is handed over after the building falls quiet, with the room, the leather and the records all in place.

Begin with a bay, not a brochure

Send a short note describing the room, the cabinet and what has been disappointing about the sound so far. The desk at Tannery Lane will reply with a suggested bay, a first listening set and the next available evening.

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